PCS - Pacemaker/Corosync Configuration System

Pcs is a Corosync and Pacemaker configuration tool. It permits users to easily view, modify and create Pacemaker based clusters. Pcs contains pcsd, a pcs daemon, which operates as a remote server for pcs and provides a web UI.

Dependencies

These are the runtime dependencies of pcs and pcsd:

• python 3.6+
• python3-lxml
• python3-pycurl
• python3-setuptools
• python3-pyOpenSSL (python3-openssl)
• python3-tornado
• ruby 2.2.0+
• killall (package psmisc)
• openssl
• corosync 3.x
• pacemaker 2.x

It is also recommended to have these:

• python3-clufter
• liberation fonts (package liberation-sans-fonts or fonts-liberation or fonts-liberation2)
• overpass fonts (package overpass-fonts)

Installation from Source

Apart from the dependencies listed above, these are also required for installation:

• python development files (package python3-devel)
• ruby development files (package ruby-devel)
• rubygems
• rubygem bundler (package rubygem-bundler or ruby-bundler or bundler)
• gcc
• gcc-c++
• FFI development files (package libffi-devel or libffi-dev)
• fontconfig
• printf (package coreutils)
• redhat-rpm-config (if you are using Fedora)
• wget (to download bundled libraries)

During the installation, all required rubygems are automatically downloaded and compiled.

To install pcs and pcsd run the following in terminal:

# tar -xzvf pcs-0.10.1.tar.gz
# cd pcs-0.10.1
# make install
# make install_pcsd

If you are using GNU/Linux with systemd, it is now time to:

# systemctl daemon-reload

Start pcsd and make it start on boot:

# systemctl start pcsd
# systemctl enable pcsd

Packages

Currently this is built into Fedora, RHEL and its clones and Debian and its derivates.

• Fedora package git repositories
• Current Kylin git repositories
• Debian-HA project home page

Quick Start

• Authenticate cluster nodes

  Set the same password for the hacluster user on all nodes.

  # passwd hacluster
  

  To authenticate the nodes, run the following command on one of the nodes (replacing node1, node2, node3 with a list of nodes in your future cluster). Specify all your cluster nodes in the command. Make sure pcsd is running on all nodes.

  # pcs host auth node1 node2 node3 -u hacluster
  

• Create a cluster

  To create a cluster run the following command on one node (replacing cluster_name with a name of your cluster and node1, node2, node3 with a list of nodes in the cluster). --start and --enable will start your cluster and configure the nodes to start the cluster on boot respectively.

  # pcs cluster setup cluster_name node1 node2 node3 --start --enable
  

• Check the cluster status

  After a few moments the cluster should startup and you can get the status of the cluster.

  # pcs status
  

• Add cluster resources

  After this you can add stonith agents and resources:

  # pcs -h stonith create
  

  and

  # pcs -h resource create
  

Accessing the Web UI

Apart from command line interface you can use web user interface to view and configure your cluster. To access the web UI open a browser to the following URL (replace nodename with an address of your node):

https://nodename:2224

Login as the hacluster user.

Further Documentation

ClusterLabs website is an excellent place to learn more about Pacemaker clusters.

• ClusterLabs quick start
• Clusters from Scratch
• ClusterLabs documentation page

Inquiries

If you have any bug reports or feature requests please feel free to open a github issue on the pcs project.

Alternatively you can use ClusterLabs users mailinglist which is also a great place to ask Pacemaker clusters related questions.