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Set up a simple Marconi deployment

Running a local Marconi server with MongoDB

Note: These instructions are for running a local instance of Marconi and not all of these steps are required. It is assumed you have MongoDB installed and running.

From your home folder create the ~/.marconi folder and clone the repo:

$ cd
$ mkdir .marconi
$ git clone https://github.com/openstack/marconi.git

Copy the Marconi config files to the directory ~/.marconi:

$ cp marconi/etc/marconi.conf.sample ~/.marconi/marconi.conf
$ cp marconi/etc/logging.conf.sample ~/.marconi/logging.conf

Find [drivers] section in ~/.marconi/marconi.conf and specify to use mongodb storage:

storage = mongodb

Then find the [drivers:storage:mongodb] section and modify the URI to point to your local mongod instance:

uri = mongodb://$MONGODB_HOST:$MONGODB_PORT

By default, you will have:

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uri = mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017
</nowiki>

For logging, find the [DEFAULT] section in ~/.marconi/marconi.conf and modify as desired:

</nowiki>
log_file = server.log
</nowiki>

Change directories back to your local copy of the repo:

</nowiki>
$ cd marconi
</nowiki>

Run the following so you can see the results of any changes you make to the code without having to reinstall the package each time:

$ pip install -e .

Start the Marconi server with logging level set to INFO so you can see the port on which the server is listening:

$ marconi-server -v

Test out that Marconi is working by creating a queue:

$ curl -i -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:8888/v1/queues/samplequeue -H "Content-type: application/json"

You should get an HTTP 201 along with some headers that will look similar to this:

HTTP/1.0 201 Created
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:34:37 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.3
Content-Length: 0
Location: /v1/queues/samplequeue

Troubleshoot

No handlers found for marconi.client (...)

This happens because the current user cannot create the log file (for the default configuration in /var/log/marconi/server.log). To solve it,

Create the folder

sudo mkdir /var/log/marconi

Create the file

sudo touch /var/log/marconi/server.log

And try running the server again.

Running tests

First install additional requirements:

pip install ddt mock

And then run tests:

python setup.py testr

Basic Marconi operations

A great article about this can be found at http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/openstack-marconi-api.html.