Private Cloud Installation - without root access

[gnanasekaran]

Is it possible to do private cloud installation without root access?

or is it atleast possible to scope out what components need root access and what do not need root?

UPDATE: So looks like its possible to install without root access, and has been verified by @Paul Mibus on 15.04 - See Marc's answer

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Not sure this is completely supported (please check with PM), but this is the approach to install as a non root user:

[bwa]$ mkdir ~/opt      # use a folder in the home dir - it is writeable

[bwa] cd ./apigee-edge-4.15.04.00

[bwa]$ ./apigee-install.sh -j /opt/jdk1.7 -r ~/opt/ -d ~/opt/

Now check pre-requisites:

[bwa]$ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-openldap-check-prerequisites.sh

[bwa]$ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-postgres-check-prerequisites.sh

[bwa]$ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-qpid-check-prerequisites.sh

Ask your sysadmin to install everything the three scripts complain about (Note: for postgresql the admins need to add the postgres yum repo: "yum install http://yum.postgresql.org/9.3/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-centos93-9.3-1.noarch.rpm")

Then start the installation as normal user, e.g. an all-in-one (aio) profile:

[bwa] $ ~/opt/apigee4/share/installer/apigee-setup.sh -f config-aio -p aio

Then create org, user, roles, envs and your are done