How to install Concourse on Fedora CoreOS Latest

Concourse is a continuous integration and delivery system that allows developers to manage their application development lifecycle. In this tutorial, we will go through the installation process of Concourse on Fedora CoreOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

  • A running instance of Fedora CoreOS Latest.
  • Root access to the server.

Installing Concourse

The installation of Concourse on Fedora CoreOS Latest includes the following steps:

  1. Install Docker

Concourse is distributed as a series of Docker containers, and in order to run it, you need to have Docker installed on your server. You can install Docker on Fedora CoreOS by running the following command:

sudo rpm-ostree install docker
  1. Install Docker Compose

Docker Compose is a tool that helps you define and run multi-container Docker applications. To install Docker Compose on Fedora CoreOS, you can use the following command:

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  1. Download Concourse

To download Concourse, you can use the following command:

wget https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/download/v7.1.0/concourse-7.1.0.tgz
tar xvzf concourse-7.1.0.tgz
  1. Create Ansible Inventory file

We’ll create a Configuration Management in Ansible to manage Concourse. In this step, create the Ansible Inventory file

sudo cat <<EOF > ~/concourse/ansible_inventory
[concourse_worker]
localhost ansible_connection=local
EOF
  1. Clone the Concourse Ansible repository

Clone the Concourse Ansible repository

git clone https://github.com/heroku/concourse-ansible.git ~/concourse
  1. Install Concourse with Ansible

In this step, we will install Concourse with Ansible by running the following command:

cd ~/concourse
ansible-playbook -i ansible_inventory concourse.yml \
-e web_external_url=http://[Concourse Domain/IP] \
-e worker_replicas=1

Note: Replace [Concourse Domain/IP] with the domain name or IP address of your server.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Concourse on Fedora CoreOS Latest.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have gone through the installation process of Concourse on Fedora CoreOS Latest. We hope this tutorial has helped you get Concourse up and running on your server.