Running Brooklyn

This guide will walk you through deploying an example 3-tier web application to a public cloud.

This tutorial assumes that you are using Linux or Mac OSX.

Install Brooklyn

Download Brooklyn and obtain a binary build as described on the download page.

Expand the tar.gz archive:

$ tar -zxf brooklyn-0.7.0-incubating-dist.tar.gz

This will create a brooklyn-0.7.0-incubating folder.

Note: You’ll need a Java JRE or SDK installed (version 1.7 or later), as Brooklyn is Java under the covers.

Note #2: If you want to test Brooklyn on localhost, follow these instructions to ensure that your Brooklyn can access your machine.

Launch Brooklyn

Now start Brooklyn with the following command:

$ cd brooklyn-0.7.0-incubating
$ bin/brooklyn launch

Brooklyn will output the address of the management interface:

INFO  Starting brooklyn web-console on loopback interface because no security config is set
INFO  Started Brooklyn console at http://127.0.0.1:8081/, running classpath://brooklyn.war and []

Next

Next, open the web console on 127.0.0.1:8081. No applications have been deployed yet, so the “Create Application” dialog opens automatically: let’s remedy this by deploying a blueprint.

It is not necessary at this time, but depending on what you are going to do, you may wish to set up other configuration options first: