Mercury

An element having the properties of liquid metal

Welcome to Mercury’s 0.0.7 documentation!

Overview

Mercury is a set of services, agents, and hardware libraries designed for the purpose of heterogeneous datacenter management.

Mercury provides two core facilities, a hardware inventory and RPC API for firmware management, BMC configuration, RAID configuration, OS provisioning, and secure decommissioning. Mercury has been developed specifically for base systems management of large numbers of servers from multiple vendors and generations, spread across multiple datacenters.

Mercury is approaching alpha status and is currently under heavy development. All aspects of the project, be it code, structure, philosophy; are likely to change.

WARNING

Use at your own risk, without any warranty, implied or otherwise

Frontend API documentation

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

Contents:

• Introduction
• Inventory
• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Server
  • Agent
• RAID Abstraction
• Building a Development Environment for Mercury
  • The Code
    • mercury
    • mercury-api
    • mercury-agent
  • Install Python 3.6 and virtualenv
    • Enterprise Linux 7 / CentOS 7
    • Ubuntu 16.04
    • OSX
  • Installing service dependencies
    • Using docker to run mongodb and redis
  • Mercury Services
    • Create a virtual environment
    • Installing the services
    • Creating the Configuration Files
    • Running the Services
    • Starting the API
  • Running the Agent
    • Linux (Native)
    • Running the Agent in Docker on Mac
  • Testing out the API
  • Done!
  • References