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Deploy a NebulaGraph cluster with RPM/DEB package on multiple servers

For now, NebulaGraph does not provide an official deployment tool. Users can deploy a NebulaGraph cluster with RPM or DEB package manually. This topic provides an example of deploying a NebulaGraph cluster on multiple servers (machines).

Deployment

Machine name IP address Number of graphd Number of storaged Number of metad
A 192.168.10.111 1 1 1
B 192.168.10.112 1 1 1
C 192.168.10.113 1 1 1
D 192.168.10.114 1 1 None
E 192.168.10.115 1 1 None

Prerequisites

  • Prepare 5 machines for deploying the cluster.
  • Use the NTP service to synchronize time in the cluster.

Manual deployment process

Install NebulaGraph

Install NebulaGraph on each machine in the cluster. Available approaches of installation are as follows.

Add a license (for the Enterprise Edition only).

  • Skip this step when you deploy a cluster with the Community Edition.

Modify the configurations

To deploy NebulaGraph according to your requirements, you have to modify the configuration files.

All the configuration files for NebulaGraph, including nebula-graphd.conf, nebula-metad.conf, and nebula-storaged.conf, are stored in the etc directory in the installation path. You only need to modify the configuration for the corresponding service on the machines. The configurations that need to be modified for each machine are as follows.

Machine name The configuration to be modified
A nebula-graphd.conf, nebula-storaged.conf, nebula-metad.conf
B nebula-graphd.conf, nebula-storaged.conf, nebula-metad.conf
C nebula-graphd.conf, nebula-storaged.conf, nebula-metad.conf
D nebula-graphd.conf, nebula-storaged.conf
E nebula-graphd.conf, nebula-storaged.conf

Users can refer to the content of the following configurations, which only show part of the cluster settings. The hidden content uses the default setting so that users can better understand the relationship between the servers in the NebulaGraph cluster.

Note

The main configuration to be modified is meta_server_addrs. All configurations need to fill in the IP addresses and ports of all Meta services. At the same time, local_ip needs to be modified as the network IP address of the machine itself. For detailed descriptions of the configuration parameters, see:

  • Deploy machine A

    • nebula-graphd.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta Server Addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-graphd process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.111
# Network device to listen on
--listen_netdev=any
# Port to listen on
--port=9669

    • nebula-storaged.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta server addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-storaged process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.111
# Storage daemon listening port
--port=9779

    • nebula-metad.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta Server addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-metad process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.111
# Meta daemon listening port
--port=9559

  • Deploy machine B

    • nebula-graphd.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta Server Addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-graphd process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.112
# Network device to listen on
--listen_netdev=any
# Port to listen on
--port=9669

    • nebula-storaged.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta server addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-storaged process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.112
# Storage daemon listening port
--port=9779

    • nebula-metad.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta Server addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-metad process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.112
# Meta daemon listening port
--port=9559

  • Deploy machine C

    • nebula-graphd.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta Server Addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-graphd process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.113
# Network device to listen on
--listen_netdev=any
# Port to listen on
--port=9669

    • nebula-storaged.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta server addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-storaged process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.113
# Storage daemon listening port
--port=9779

    • nebula-metad.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta Server addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-metad process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.113
# Meta daemon listening port
--port=9559

  • Deploy machine D

    • nebula-graphd.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta Server Addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-graphd process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.114
# Network device to listen on
--listen_netdev=any
# Port to listen on
--port=9669

    • nebula-storaged.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta server addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-storaged process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.114
# Storage daemon listening port
--port=9779

  • Deploy machine E

    • nebula-graphd.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta Server Addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-graphd process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.115
# Network device to listen on
--listen_netdev=any
# Port to listen on
--port=9669

    • nebula-storaged.conf

      ########## networking ##########
# Comma separated Meta server addresses
--meta_server_addrs=192.168.10.111:9559,192.168.10.112:9559,192.168.10.113:9559
# Local IP used to identify the nebula-storaged process.
# Change it to an address other than loopback if the service is distributed or
# will be accessed remotely.
--local_ip=192.168.10.115
# Storage daemon listening port
--port=9779

Start the cluster

Start the corresponding service on each machine. Descriptions are as follows.

Machine name The process to be started
A graphd, storaged, metad
B graphd, storaged, metad
C graphd, storaged, metad
D graphd, storaged
E graphd, storaged

The command to start the NebulaGraph services is as follows.

sudo /usr/local/nebula/scripts/nebula.service start <metad|graphd|storaged|all>

Note

  • Make sure all the processes of services on each machine are started. Otherwise, you will fail to start NebulaGraph.
  • When the graphd process, the storaged process, and the metad process are all started, you can use all instead.
  • /usr/local/nebula is the default installation path for NebulaGraph. Use the actual path if you have customized the path. For more information about how to start and stop the services, see Manage NebulaGraph services.

Check the cluster status

Install the native CLI client NebulaGraph Console, then connect to any machine that has started the graphd process, run ADD HOSTS command to add storage hosts, and run SHOW HOSTS to check the cluster status. For example:

$ ./nebula-console --addr 192.168.10.111 --port 9669 -u root -p nebula

2021/05/25 01:41:19 [INFO] connection pool is initialized successfully
Welcome to NebulaGraph!

> ADD HOSTS 192.168.10.111:9779, 192.168.10.112:9779, 192.168.10.113:9779, 192.168.10.114:9779, 192.168.10.115:9779;
> SHOW HOSTS;
+------------------+------+----------+--------------+----------------------+------------------------+---------+
| Host             | Port | Status   | Leader count | Leader distribution  | Partition distribution | Version |
+------------------+------+----------+--------------+----------------------+------------------------+---------+
| "192.168.10.111" | 9779 | "ONLINE" | 0            | "No valid partition" | "No valid partition"   | "3.4.0" |
| "192.168.10.112" | 9779 | "ONLINE" | 0            | "No valid partition" | "No valid partition"   | "3.4.0" |
| "192.168.10.113" | 9779 | "ONLINE" | 0            | "No valid partition" | "No valid partition"   | "3.4.0" |
| "192.168.10.114" | 9779 | "ONLINE" | 0            | "No valid partition" | "No valid partition"   | "3.4.0" |
| "192.168.10.115" | 9779 | "ONLINE" | 0            | "No valid partition" | "No valid partition"   | "3.4.0" |
+------------------+------+-----------+----------+--------------+----------------------+------------------------+---------+
Last update: February 19, 2024