How to install micro-qa?¶

You can install micro qa in few different ways. The easiest option would be to install it on your laptop using VirtualBox.

Install using VirtualBox¶

First install VirtualBox, if you are on Fedora then you can install it from rpmfusion repo.

# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
# yum install VirtualBox

Then install Vagrant. You can do it with the following command.

# yum install https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant_1.4.3_x86_64.rpm

Fork the MicroQA project. To learn more about forking a project you can read this link.
Clone your forked repo.

$ git clone https://github.com/your-username/micro-qa.git

Go inside the git repo and run the following command.

$ vagrant up

This will download a virtual machine, boot it and install micro-qa inside that vm. The download need to happen only once, from next time it will reuse the downloaded files.

After the above command you can access the micro-qa install by visiting: http://localhost:8080.

Note

At the end of vagrant up command, it will show you the IP of the VM with ifconfig eth1 command. You can use that IP too in your browser.

Install using AWS or Eucalyptus¶

You can setup micro-qa on an AWS instance or Eucalyptus instance too.

Install Vagrant. You can do it with the following command.

# yum install https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant_1.4.3_x86_64.rpm

Fork the MicroQA project. To learn more about forking a project you can read this link.
Clone your forked repo.

$ git clone https://github.com/your-username/micro-qa.git

Edit the following parameters in the Vagrantfile.

aws.access_key_id = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
aws.secret_access_key = "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"
aws.instance_type = "m1.medium"
## This CentOS 6 EMI needs to have the following commented out of /etc/sudoers,
## Defaults    requiretty
aws.ami = "emi-1873419A"
aws.security_groups = ["default"]
aws.region = "eucalyptus"
aws.endpoint = "http://10.0.1.91:8773/services/Eucalyptus"
aws.keypair_name = "vic"
override.ssh.username ="root"
override.ssh.private_key_path ="/Path/to/.ssh/id_rsa"

Install a “dummy” vagrant box file to allow override of the box with the ami/emi

$ vagrant box add centos https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws/raw/master/dummy.box

Once inside the repository run vagrant up –provider=aws. This will run a virtual machine, and install MicroQA in your cloud.

$ vagrant up --provider=aws

Login to MicroQA on your browser by visiting: http://<instance-ip>:8080