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Rally setup

Prerequisites

Start with installing some requirements that Rally needs to be set up correctly. The specific requirements depend on the environment you are going to install Rally in:

Ubuntu

 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install libpq-dev git-core python-dev libevent-dev libssl-dev python-pip

CentOS

 sudo yum install gcc git-core postgresql-libs python-devel libevent-devel openssl-devel
 #install pip on centos:
 curl -o /tmp/ez_setup.py https://sources.rhodecode.com/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py 
 sudo /usr/bin/python /tmp/ez_setup.py 
 sudo /usr/bin/easy_install pip 
 sudo rm setuptools-*.tar.gz 
 sudo pip install -i https://pypi.rhodecode.com/ --upgrade pip

VirtualEnv

Another option is to install Rally in virtualenv; you should then install this package, create a virtualenv and activate it:

 sudo pip install -U virtualenv
 virtualenv .venv
 . .venv/bin/activate

INSTALL PBR firstly because of bug pbr bug

 pip install pbr

Installing Rally

The next step is to clone & install rally:

 git clone https://github.com/stackforge/rally.git && cd rally
 python setup.py install

After the installation step has been completed, you need to create the Rally database:

 rally-manage db recreate

Now you are ready to configure Rally:

sudo mkdir /etc/rally 
sudo cp etc/rally/rally.conf.sample /etc/rally/rally.conf
sudo vim /etc/rally/rally.conf

And finally you are able to use it