Master Node Installation

The system implemented within C2F consists of a master node, and agent nodes. This section describes how to install these components.

Master Node

The master node application includes the API, management web interface, and agent stager. As the entire application has been dockerized, installation is a simple process.

Requirements

• A web facing server - I recommend an AWS EC2 free tier micro-instance for testing and evaluation purposes.

• A fully qualified domain name pointing to the server - required for automatic SSL cert generation via letsencrypt.

• Docker engine - Installation instructions can be found here.

• Docker Compose -pip install docker-compose

Steps

1. Clone the C2F repository.

2. Create/edit the .env file in the base directory of the repository

POSTGRES_DB=$DB_NAME
POSTGRES_USER=$DB_USER
POSTGRES_PASS=$POSTGRES_PASS
DB_SERVICE=postgres
DB_PORT=$PORT
MY_DOMAIN_NAME=$MASTER_NODE_DOMAIN_NAME
EMAIL=$YOUR_EMAIL
DJANGO_ADMIN_USER=$C2F_ADMIN_USERNAME
DJANGO_ADMIN_PASS=$C2F_ADMIN_PASSWORD

3. Run docker-compose up 4. Navigate to your new master node in a browser and login with the credentials you configured in the .env file.

Notes

• To update C2F, simply update the git repository, then run: docker-compose build && docker-compose up

• You can safely rebuild the containers without loss of data, so feel free to update C2F whenever new updates become available.