# Local Cluster Management
- [Overview](#overview)
- [Getting Started](#getting-started)
- [Mac OS X](#mac-os-x)
- [Windows](#windows)
- [Linux](#linux)
- [Administrator Access](#administrator-access)
- [Docker Machine](#docker-machine)
- [Configuration](#configuration)
- [Etcd Data](#etcd-data)
- [Routing](#routing)
- [Specifying Images to Use](#specifying-images-to-use)
## Overview
The `oc cluster up` command starts a local OpenShift all-in-one cluster with a configured registry, router, image streams, and default templates.
By default, the command requires a working Docker connection. However, if running in an environment with
[Docker Machine](https://docs.docker.com/machine) installed, it can create a Docker machine for you.
The `oc cluster up` command will create a default user and project and, once it completes, will allow you to start using the
command line to create and deploy apps with commands like `oc new-app`, `oc new-build`, and `oc run`. It will also print out
a URL to access the management console for your cluster.
## Getting Started
### Mac OS X
1. Install [Docker Toolbox](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-toolbox) and ensure that it is functional.
2. Download the OS X `oc` binary from [openshift-origin-client-tools-VERSION-mac.zip](https://github.com/openshift/origin/releases/latest) and place it in your path.
3. Open Terminal and run
```
$ oc cluster up --create-machine
```
A Docker machine named `openshift` will be created using the VirtualBox driver and the OpenShift cluster
will be started on it.
To stop the cluster, run:
```
$ oc cluster down --docker-machine=openshift
```
To create a machine with a different name, specify the `--docker-machine` argument with `--create-machine`:
```
$ oc cluster up --create-machine --docker-machine=mymachine
```
Once the machine has been created, the `--create-machine` argument is no longer needed. To start/stop OpenShift again, either:
* Setup the Docker environment for the machine you wish to use, and then run `oc cluster up` and `oc cluster down`:
```
$ eval $(docker-machine env openshift)
$ oc cluster up
...
$ oc cluster down
```
OR
* Specify the Docker machine name as an argument to `oc cluster up` and `oc cluster down`:
```
$ oc cluster up --docker-machine=openshift
...
$ oc cluster down --docker-machine=openshift
```
### Windows
1. Install [Docker Toolbox](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-toolbox) and ensure that it is functional.
2. Download the Windows `oc.exe` binary from [openshift-origin-client-tools-VERSION-windows.zip](https://github.com/openshift/origin/releases/latest) and place it in your path.
3. Open a Command window as Administrator (for most drivers, docker-machine on Windows requires administrator privileges)
and run:
```
C:\> oc cluster up --create-machine
```
A Docker machine named `openshift` will be created using the VirtualBox driver and the OpenShift cluster
will be started on it.
To stop the cluster, run:
```
C:\> oc cluster down --docker-machine=openshift
```
To create a machine with a different name, specify the `--docker-machine` argument with `--create-machine`:
```
C:\> oc cluster up --create-machine --docker-machine=mymachine
```
Once the machine has been created, the `--create-machine` argument is no longer needed. To start/stop OpenShift again, either:
* Setup the Docker environment for the machine you wish to use, and then run `oc cluster up` and `oc cluster down`:
```
C:\> @FOR /f "tokens=*" %i IN ('docker-machine env openshift') DO @%i
C:\> oc cluster up
...
C:\> oc cluster down
```
* Specify the Docker machine name as an argument to `oc cluster up` and `oc cluster down`:
```
C:\> oc cluster up --docker-machine=openshift
...
C:\> oc cluster down --docker-machine=openshift
```
### Linux
1. Install Docker with your platform's package manager.
2. Configure the Docker daemon with an insecure registry parameter of `172.30.0.0/16`
In RHEL and Fedora, edit the `/etc/sysconfig/docker` file and add or uncomment the following line:
```
INSECURE_REGISTRY='--insecure-registry 172.30.0.0/16'
```
After editing the config, restart the Docker daemon.
3. Download the Linux `oc` binary from
[openshift-origin-client-tools-VERSION-linux-64bit.tar.gz](https://github.com/openshift/origin/releases/latest)
and place it in your path.
4. Open a terminal with a user that has permission to run Docker commands and run:
```
$ oc cluster up
```
To stop your cluster, run:
```
$ oc cluster down
```
## Administrator Access
To execute administrator commands on your cluster, `docker exec` into the `origin` container:
```
docker exec -ti origin bash
```
## Docker Machine
By default, when `--create-machine` is used to create a new Docker machine, the `oc cluster up` command will use the
VirtualBox driver. In order to use a different driver, you must create the Docker machine beforehand
and either specify its name with the `--docker-machine` argument, or set its environment using the `docker-machine env`
command. When creating a Docker machine manually, you must specify the `--engine-insecure-registry` secure registry
parameter expected by OpenShift.
Following are examples of creating a new Docker machine in OS X using the [xhyve](https://github.com/zchee/docker-machine-driver-xhyve) driver,
and in Windows, using the [hyper-v](https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/hyper-v/) driver.
OS X:
```
$ docker-machine create --driver xhyve --engine-insecure-registry 172.30.0.0/16 mymachine
```
Windows (running a command window as Administrator):
```
C:\> docker-machine create --driver hyperv --engine-insecure-registry 172.30.0.0/16 mymachine
```
When the `--docker-machine` argument is specified on `oc cluster up`, the machine's environment does not need to be configured
on the current shell. Also if the machine exists but is not started, `oc cluster up` will attempt to start it.
## Configuration
`oc cluster up` creates its configuration by default in `/var/lib/origin/openshift.local.config` on the Docker host.
To specify a different location for it, use the `--host-config-dir` argument. The host directory will be mounted
in the `origin` container at `/var/lib/origin/openshift.local.config`.
A new configuration will be generated by default each time the cluster is started. To make changes to the configuration and
preserve those changes, use the `--use-existing-config` argument when starting your cluster.
If your client is not the Docker host, you can make a local copy of the configuration with Docker cp:
```
docker cp origin:/var/lib/origin/openshift.local.config .
```
## Etcd Data
To persist data across restarts, specify a valid host directory in the `--host-data-dir` argument when starting your cluster
with `oc cluster up`. As long as the same value is specified every time, the data will be preserved across restarts.
If a host data directory is not specified, the data directory used by OpenShift is discarded when the container is destroyed.
## Routing
The default routing suffix used by `oc cluster up` is CLUSTER_IP.xip.io where CLUSTER_IP is the IP address of your cluster.
To use a different suffix, specify it with `--routing-suffix`.
## Specifying Images to Use
By default `oc cluster up` uses `openshift/origin:[released-version]` as its OpenShift image (where [released-version]
corresponds to the release of the `oc` client) and `openshift-origin-${component}:[released-version]` for
other images created by the OpenShift cluster (registry, router, builders, etc). It is possible to use a different set of
images by specifying the version and/or the image prefix.
To use a different version of Origin, specify the --version argument. In the following example, images named
openshift/origin:v1.1.6, openshift/origin-router:v1.1.6, etc. will be used for your cluster.
```
oc cluster up --version=v1.1.6
```
To use images from a different registry or with a different namespace, use the --image argument. In the following example,
myregistry.example.com/ose/origin:latest, myregistry.example.com/ose/origin-router:latest, etc. will be used for your cluster.
```
oc cluster up --image=myregistry.example.com/ose/origin
```
Both --version and --image may be combined to specify the image name prefix and tag for the images to use.