Cloudify is an open-source cloud orchestration platform that helps to build and deploy applications on various infrastructures. It supports multiple cloud environments such as AWS, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Docker, etc. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Cloudify on nixOS latest.
Before proceeding with the Cloudify installation, it's important to update the system packages using the following command.
$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
Cloudify is available in the nixOS repository, you can install it using the following command.
$ sudo nix-env -i cloudify
Once the Cloudify installation completes, you can verify it by checking the version installed using the following command.
$ sudo cloudify version
By default, Cloudify uses the SQLite database to store its data. However, you can change it to use any other database. Let's see how to configure Cloudify to use the PostgreSQL database.
First, install the PostgreSQL database using the following command.
$ sudo nix-env -iA nixpkgs.postgresql
To configure Cloudify to use PostgreSQL, run the following commands.
$ sudo cloudify_manager configure --db-ip localhost --db-password <db-password> --db-port 5432 --db-user postgres --db-name cloudify
Replace <db-password> with your PostgreSQL database password.
Finally, start the Cloudify Manager using the following command.
$ sudo systemctl start cloudify-manager
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Cloudify on nixOS latest and configure it to use PostgreSQL database. You can now start using Cloudify to deploy and manage applications on various cloud environments.
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