Preparing Fedora 19 for OpenStack Glance Development

For development of Glance I have recently been using the publicly available Fedora 19 VM which RDO made available here.  From time to time I have found that I need to boot the VM clean (eg: verifying that my environment is not influencing recent changes etc).  In this brief post I will describe how to prepare that clean VM instance with all the dependencies needed for Glance development.

Installing the Dependencies

Run the following to install all the base deps:

sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install git vim gcc postgresql-devel mariadb-devel python-virtualenv libffi-devel libxslt-devel

Install Glance Into A Virtualenv

Now run the following to create a python virtual environment and install glance and its deps into it.

git clone git://github.com/openstack/glance.git
virtualenv --no-site-packages VE
source VE/bin/activate
cd glance/
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r test-requirements.txt
python setup.py develop
./run_tests.sh -N

At this point you have a configured python virutalenv with Glance installed into it and you are ready to start developing Glance!