http://twitter.com/openshift/statuses/233780080940314624/
Since you asked, I'll talk you through it.
I have some handy stage4 tarballs and a spare Xen VM.
The Gentoo handbook (www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook) is the best documentation to installing a basic gentoo system with network access and a working compiler.
In terms of system resources, don't skimp. 512MB RAM is not enough to install the gems! A minimum of 1G RAM is a must. In my short experience, ruby applications are use a lot of memory so avoid depending on swap.
This heavier footprint is disappointing. Breaking the 512MB limit means that deploying one some of the smaller (free) plans from other cloud services is impossible. You can't run OpenShift on OpenShift.
emerge -avuk git bundler rake mongodb
The -a and -v switches let you make sure that emerge is doing what you want it to do. Tweak any USE flags and keywords here, the defaults are safe. The -u and -k flags are shortcuts to speed up the emerge, -u will skip any packages already installed (but still allows upgrades) and -k (or -g ig you have set PORTAGE_BINHOST) will use binary packages if you have them.
dev-db/mongodb is currently in ~arch. Remember to add it to /etc/portage/package.keywords along with dev-lang/spidermonkey and app- arch/snappy.
sudo /etc/init.d/mongodb start
mongo localhost/admin --eval 'db.addUser("admin", <password>)'
Turn on mongodb with authentication.
/etc/conf.d/mongodb
MONGODB_OPTIONS="--journal --auth"
sudo /etc/init.d/mongodb restart
/usr/bin/mongo localhost/admin << EOF
db.auth("admin", <password>)
use stickshift_broker_dev
db.addUser("stickshift", <password>)
EOF
Drop down to normal user privilages. Create a user if you have to.
git clone git://github.com/openshift/crankcase.git
Ruby gems are installed to $HOME/.gem/, so add that to your PATH.
echo PATH=$HOME/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin:\$PATH >> $HOME/.bashrc
echo export PATH >> $HOME/.bashrc
Logout, then log in and check that the new PATH has been loaded.
The crankcase repository is a super repository for lots of openshift goodies. Since we can't 'yum install rubygem-stickshift-*', we need to create the gem from source and install it locally.
cd crankcase/stickshift/common
gem build stickshift-common.gemspec
gem install stickshift-common-*.gem
gem build creates a versioned .gem package.
gem install resolves dependencies from the internet and installs the gem
locally.
ls ~/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems # to make sure that it got installed.
Now do the same for stickshift/node, stickshift/controller and
swingshift/mongo.
Currently stickshift/node is a dependency, but should not be in future
versions.
cd stickshift/broker
Update the database config under config/environments/development.rb
Create config/environments/plugin-config/swingshift-mongo-plugin.rb according to the openshift documentation
Hook into the plugin configuration file with
echo "require File.expand_path('../plugin-config/swingshift-mongo-plugin.rb', __FILE__)" >> config/environments/development.rb
Add the plugin to the Gemfile
...
#Add plugin gems here
gem 'swingshift-mongo-plugin'
Gather it all together
bundle
This command will fail if you don't have enough RAM.
Edit scripts/rails. Bump the port to something higher, so that you don't need root privilages to run it. Disable SSL, or generate a certificate/key pair for rails to use.
Run the server with
bundle exec rails server
The broker application is now running. Connect to it with a browser or curl. Don't be too disappointed with the resulting error about a routing error. The broker is an API server for RESTful requests from the rhc client tools, not a website.
/usr/bin/rake test
While not all tests pass, it's not a complete failure.
DB errors can be quenched by setting config/environments/test.rb with appropriate values.
Some of the failures are dure to missing packages, trying to be smart and calling 'rpm' to install missing gems.
I called the rails application by hand. The repository contains some helpful init system hooks for Debian and RedHat(under init.d), Fedora (under systemd) and apache (under httpd). To integrate this into Gentoo's OpenRC, the closest thing would be to add a new script based on init.d/stickshift-broker.
My personal preference would be to switch to systemd and use the provided systemd/stickshift-broker.{env,service}. In Gentoo, OpenRC and systemd can be installed at the same time. The init system in use will be decided on boot (init=/sbin/init or init=/usr/bin/systemd). Using the systemd service files provided is a better solution for cross-distro compatibility and future proofing. As always, in Gentoo the choice is available to spin your own init scripts, or just hook into apache.
Once hooked into an init system, then dropping down to port 80 or 443 with root privileges is more appropriate.
I have also not yet attempted DDNS integration and message queues.
I have the first piece of an OpenShift Origin deployment working under Gentoo. It is a very hands-on install, and I don't have any ebuilds yet. This is a really good test for the Open Cloud and the principal of platform independence.