How to set up a basic NFS server for Hipchat Data Center

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This article provides an example configuration to help you set up your Hipchat Data Center deployment, however third-party software might require extra configuration work to function in your environment. Atlassian provides best-effort to assist you with your deployment, but does not directly support these components.

Purpose

Provide guidance on installing and configuring a basic NFS server for use in a Small-scale Hipchat Data Center environment.

In this How To guide, we will install and configure NFSv4 on a CentOS 7 Linux server. 

Before you begin, we recommend familiarizing yourself with installing and administering CentOS 7 using the Linux command line. 

Prepare

Install and Configure

  1. Install the nfs-utils package on the server using yum.

    sudo yum -y install nfs-utils
  2. If you haven't already, create a directory on the NFS server for sharing. This example command creates a directory named "hipchatfiles" on the root filesystem of the server.

    sudo mkdir /hipchatfiles
  3. Next, set the ownership and permissions on the directory. If you have a different directory name, make sure you substitute that for "/hipchatfiles" in the commands below.

    sudo chmod -R 755 /hipchatfiles
    sudo chown nfsnobody:nfsnobody /hipchatfiles
  4. Start the NFS services on the server.

    sudo systemctl start rpcbind
    sudo systemctl start nfs-server
    sudo systemctl start nfs-lock
    sudo systemctl start nfs-idmap
  5. Run the following enable commands on the NFS server so that the services automatically start when the server is rebooted.

    sudo systemctl enable rpcbind
    sudo systemctl enable nfs-server
    sudo systemctl enable nfs-lock
    sudo systemctl enable nfs-idmap
  6. As the root user, edit the /etc/exports file on the server in a text editor. Add the following line to provide information on how the /hipchatfiles directory is shared with other systems.

    /hipchatfiles *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

    The example above allows any client interface to connect to the shared directory with both read and write permissions. The sync option ensures no data is acknowledged on the share until it is written to disk, and the no_root_squash option allows root users from remote systems to make changes to files on the shared directory. Enabling no_root_squash helps avoid issues with mounting and writing to the NFS share during Data Center setup

    The /etc/exports configuration is for example purposes. Your organization may have policies in place about which systems and networks can access the NFS share. Learn more about configuring the /etc/exports parameters in the exports man page.

  7. Save the changes to the /etc/exports file and restart the NFS services.

    sudo systemctl restart nfs-server
  8. Make sure the directory is being shared out from the server using the showmount -e command. The output should look something like this.

    showmount -e
    Export list for centos1.example.com:
    /hipchatfiles *
  9. Open the firewall ports on the CentOS 7 server so that the NFS services are accessible from remote hosts:

    sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=nfs
    sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=mountd
    sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=rpc-bind
    sudo firewall-cmd --reload
  10. Continue on to configure the rest of the small-scale Hipchat Data Center deployment using the instructions in the Deployment Guide

Last modified on Jan 19, 2018

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