Installation

There is currently only one way to install Cloud Gateway on a server:

• compiling it from source.

Technical requirements

For the machine (either virtual or bare-metal) on which Cloud Gateway is to be deployed, the following requirements shall be met:

• a Linux 64 bits kernel >= 2.6.32 ;
• a Bash shell >= 3.0 ;
• a PostgreSQL server >= 9.1 [6] ;
• a FUSE module [7].

At this time, Cloud Gateway has been successfully tested on the following Linux versions:

• Debian 7.0 (x86_64) (Wheezy) ;
• Debian 8.0 (x86_64) (Jessie) ;
• Ubuntu Server 12.04 (x86_64) (LTS) ;
• Ubuntu Server 13.04 (x86_64) ;
• Ubuntu Server 13.10 (x86_64) ;
• Ubuntu Server 14.04 (x86_64) (TLS) ;
• openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) (Dartmouth) ;
• openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) (Bottle) ;
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.2 (x86_64) ;
• CentOS 6.4 (x86_64).

Compilation

You can find the source on github : https://github.com/nuagelabsfr/cloud-gateway. Please follow the README instructions you will find in the repository.

Cloud Gateway User

Because Cloud Gateway does not need any security privileges to run, Nuage Labs strongly advises to use a dedicated system user instead of running Cloud Gateway as root.

For that reason, the Debian package creates a new user named cloudgw if it does not exist yet. This user owns the Cloud Gateway files, and it is under its identity that Cloud Gateway should be run.

[6]	the PostgreSQL server can be installed on an other host, or even on a cluster of hosts for maximum performance

[7]	File System In Userspace, a kernel component available in all modern distributions