Having ran a local copy of OpenShift Origin using VirtualBox I decided to have a go at running it on a Digital Ocean Droplet running CentOS 6.5. This should be easy as there is an installer which claims;
You’re one shell command away from deploying your own Platform as a Service.
Well, sort of, after a few failed installs I finally managed it using the following (this assumes you are running a clean and minimal CentOS 6.5 installation)
So, the problem I was having with is that by default oo_install assumes you are running Fedora 19 and populates repos_base with http://mirror.openshift.com/pub/origin-server/release/3/fedora-19/ what the install instructions fail to say is that you need to replace this with http://mirror.openshift.com/pub/origin-server/release/3/rhel-6 when prompted about the subscription configuration oo_install will use for the deployment.
You can view the output of a full oo_install run through listed in this Gist .
So, if I had run through this on a Fedora 19 Droplet, would this have been any different? In short, yes;
This is mostly because of Fedora is way ahead of RHEL 6 based installations, this however should all change shortly with the release of RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 .