Installation
Pre-requisites
If you would be installing the entire stack on a single host, we recommend using a host with at least 8 Cores, 16GB RAM and 50GB Disk Space.
These instructions are for installing Panoptes in a production environment. If you're testing or developing Panoptes we would recommend the Panoptes_docker project instead.
OS
Panoptes has been extensively tested on Redhat Linux, though it should run on any distribution that's compatible with LSB.
The OS should also have the following packages installed:
- python3
- python3-venv
- python3-pip
- python3-setuptools
Python
Panoptes supports Python3. Our reference version for the moment is Python 3.6, and you'll need venv or another virtual environment for Python3.
Dependencies
Before downloading and installing Panoptes, you would need the following services installed and configured
Redis
Panoptes has been tested with Redis 4.0.9
Zookeeper
Panoptes has been tested with Zookeeper version 3.4.10
Kafka
Panoptes has been tested with Kafka version 1.1.0
InfluxDB
Please follow these instructions to download and install InfluxDB
Grafana
Grafana is a mature visualization product. We'll use this to visualize output.
Installation
Install Panoptes by running the following commands (assuming venv):
sudo useradd panoptes
sudo -su panoptes
cd ~
mkdir -p /home/panoptes/conf
mkdir -p /home/panoptes/log
python3 -m venv /home/panoptes_v
source /home/panoptes_v/bin/activate
pip3 install wheel
pip3 install yahoo_panoptes
Configuration
Panoptes is configured with ini style configuration files
/home/panoptes/conf/panoptes.ini is the main configuration file; and you can find an examples of config files
under examples
For a quick start, you can copy all config files under examples to /home/panoptes
See Configuration for more details on these files.