Centos Installation Steps

Overview

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing Carrier on CentOS operating systems. Carrier is a powerful platform for performance and security testing.

Please find the hardware requirements by following the link.

Prerequisites

Before installing Carrier, you need to ensure that the following tools are installed on your CentOS system:

Docker 4.19.0+
Docker Compose 1.29.2+
Git 2.40.1+
Make

After executing the installation commands, it is important to ensure that there are no errors. Please verify that the installation process completed successfully without encountering any issues.

Install Docker

Update the system:

sudo yum update -y

Expected Output:

   python3-attrs-20.3.0-7.el9.noarch
   python3-jsonschema-3.2.0-13.el9.noarch
   python3-pyrsistent-0.17.3-8.el9.x86_64

 Complete!

Install required packages:

  
sudo yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2

Set up the Docker repository:

sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Install Docker:
1 sudo yum install docker-ce -y

Start and enable Docker service:

  
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker

Verify that Docker is installed correctly:

docker --version

Expected Output:

 [root@ip-172-31-26-250 ec2-user]# docker --version
 Docker version 24.0.2, build cb74df

Install Docker Compose

Ensure that you have Docker installed on your CentOS system. If Docker is not installed, you can refer to the previous instructions to install it.

Download the Docker Compose binary into the /usr/local/bin directory:

  
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Apply executable permissions to the Docker Compose binary:
1 sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Create a symbolic link for docker-compose in /usr/bin/docker-compose:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose

Verify that Docker Compose is installed correctly:

docker-compose --version

Expected Output:

 [root@ip-172-31-26-250 ec2-user]# docker-compose --version
 Docker Compose version v2.18.1

Install Git

Install Git:
1 sudo yum install git -y

Verify the Git installation:

git --version

Expected Output:

 [root@ip-172-31-26-250 ec2-user]# git version
 git version 2.39.1

Install Make

Install the Development Tools group package:

  
sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y

Verify the Make installation:
1 make --version

After completing these steps, you have successfully installed Docker, Docker Compose, Git, and Make tools on your CentOS system.

Make sure to execute these additional steps before proceeding with the Carrier installation to ensure that all the required tools are installed on your CentOS system.

Carrier Installation Steps

You need to use public IP to access Carrier

Using root user clone the carrier-io centry repository to the /opt directory:

git clone https://github.com/carrier-io/centry.git -b beta-1.0 /opt/centry

Navigate to the downloaded folder:
1 cd /opt/centry
Get the public IP of your system and set the CURRENT_IP variable to the defined value:

  
export CURRENT_IP=$(curl -s ifconfig.me)

Set parameters in .env and Makefile file

4.1 Set IP (change DEV_IP and DIRECT_IP to CURRENT_IP):

 sed -i -e "s/\#DIRECT_IP=YOUR_IP_HERE/DIRECT_IP=$CURRENT_IP/g" Makefile
 sed -i -e "s/\$APP_IP/$CURRENT_IP/g" .env

4.2 Set installation path in for CARRIER_PATH and VOLUMES_PATH in .env:

 vi .env
 ....
 CARRIER_PATH=/opt/centry
 VOLUMES_PATH=/opt/centry/volumes
 ....

Review list of default plugins in config file:
1 cat config/pylon.yml

Launch the Carrier installer:

make up

Expected Output:

  [+] Running 126/26
  ✔ vault 5 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                                        15.4s
  ✔ loki 7 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                                        6.0s
  ✔ minio 6 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                                       22.9s
  ✔ mongo 9 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                                    36.2s
  ✔ postgres 13 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                            32.0s
  ✔ pylon 11 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                                 45.8s
  ✔ pylon_auth Pulled                                                                                                    45.8s
  ✔ grafana 9 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                                  28.0s
  ✔ redis 6 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                                       15.6s
  ✔ traefik 4 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                                        9.7s
  ✔ rabbitmq 12 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                             25.4s
  ✔ keycloak 4 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                                      39.6s
  ✔ influx 7 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                                     33.2s
  ✔ interceptor 18 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B      Pulled                                                    42.8s
  ✔ interceptor_internal Pulled                                                                                          42.7s
 ....
 [+] Building 0.0s (0/0)
 [+] Running 16/16
  ✔ Network centry_pylon                    Created                                                                       0.1s
  ✔ Container carrier-redis                 Started                                                                      17.3s
  ✔ Container carrier-mongo                 Started                                                                      17.4s
  ✔ Container carrier-loki                  Started                                                                      17.7s
  ✔ Container carrier-minio                 Started                                                                      17.4s
  ✔ Container carrier-postgres              Started                                                                      17.5s
  ✔ Container carrier-influx                Started                                                                      17.5s
  ✔ Container carrier-vault                 Started                                                                       2.1s
  ✔ Container centry-traefik-1              Started                                                                       1.5s
  ✔ Container carrier-rabbit                Started                                                                       2.0s
  ✔ Container carrier-grafana               Started                                                                       2.0s
  ✔ Container carrier-keycloak              Started                                                                       2.3s
  ✔ Container carrier-interceptor_internal  Started                                                                       3.0s
  ✔ Container carrier-interceptor           Started                                                                       2.8s
  ✔ Container carrier-pylon-auth            Started                                                                       3.3s
  ✔ Container carrier-pylon                 Started

Verify that main container is started:

Packages downloading process takes ~5-10 minutes

 docker logs -f carrier-pylon

Expected Output:

 INFO - pylon.core.tools.process - Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/e3/76/6f/..
 INFO - pylon.core.tools.process - Successfully built jsonpath_rw
 INFO - pylon.core.tools.process - Installing collected packages: ply, decorator, jsonpath_rw
 INFO - pylon.core.tools.process - Successfully installed decorator-5.1.1 jsonpath_rw-1.4.0 ply-3.11
 INFO - plugins.auth_mappers.module - Initializing module
 INFO - plugins.auth_oidc.module - Initializing module
 INFO - plugins.auth_root.module - Initializing module auth_root
 INFO - pylon.core.tools.server - Starting Flask server
 * Tip: There are .env or .flaskenv files present. Do "pip install python-dotenv" to use them.
 WARNING - werkzeug -  * Debugger is active!
 INFO - werkzeug -  * Debugger PIN: 686-802-926

Verify that no Docker containers have been restarted:

 docker ps -a

Once the installation is finished, open the following URL in a browser: http://<public DNS or IP>
Login for the first time to the system using the admin/admin credentials.
You’re all set, then! Excellent Work!

Post-Installation Steps

It is highly recommended to change the default password after logging in.

After installing Carrier, you may want to perform the following post-installation steps:

1. Configure Carrier project

Set up user accounts, roles, and permissions.
Configure email notifications, integrations, and other settings.

2. Secure Carrier

Change default user passwords
Enable HTTPS for secure communication with the Carrier web interface.
Configure firewall rules to restrict access to Carrier ports.
Follow best practices for securing your Debian 11 server.

3. Set Up Projects and Tests

Create projects in Carrier to organize your tests.
Configure and run performance tests using the Carrier web interface.

Next Step: Create a Project in Carrier

Once you have completed the installation steps, you can proceed to create your first project in Carrier. The project allows you to organize and manage your performance and security tests.

Follow the guide on how to create a project in Carrier to get started.

Troubleshooting

Restart carrier-pylon container

docker restart carrier-pylon
docker logs -f carrier-pylon

If something doesn’t work as expected, check the logs of the following containers for any errors:

  
docker logs -f carrier-keycloak
docker logs -f centry_traefik_1
docker logs -f carrier-pylon-auth

Uninstall

If the root volume was used as the hard drive, use the following commands to stop containers and remove all required artifacts:

docker-compose down
docker volume prune
docker network prune

If a mounted disk was used, manually delete all directories with images:

docker-compose down
sudo rm -rf /opt/docker

Centos Installation Steps

Overview

Prerequisites

Install Docker

Install Docker Compose

Install Git

Install Make

Carrier Installation Steps

Post-Installation Steps

1. Configure Carrier project

2. Secure Carrier

3. Set Up Projects and Tests

Next Step: Create a Project in Carrier

Troubleshooting

Uninstall

Further Reading

Carrier Installation Guide

Fedora Installation Steps

Ubuntu Installation Steps