--- title: Install pluto on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of pluto for on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - A swiss-army knife for managing HPC clusters built with Ubuntu url: https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/rhel --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install pluto on **Red Hat Enterprise Linux** # pluto [Jason Nucciarone (nuccitheboss)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/nuccitheboss "View all snaps from Jason Nucciarone (nuccitheboss)") * [Jason Nucciarone (nuccitheboss)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/nuccitheboss "View all snaps from Jason Nucciarone (nuccitheboss)") * [Science](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=science) * [Server and Cloud](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=server-and-cloud) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/rhel#install) #### A swiss-army knife for managing HPC clusters built with Ubuntu **Description** Pluto is proof-of-concept application for demonstrating the work that the High-Performance Computing (HPC) team at Canonical has accomplished over the past several months. Pluto showcases the *Charmed HPC* project by automatically bootstrapping a micro-HPC cluster. The following services are deployed by Pluto to build the cluster: * SLURM + Munge * GLAuth + SSSD * NFSv4 After several minutes, you will have a fully-functional charmed micro-HPC cluster at your fingertips! Take the cluster for a spin and see how Ubuntu can meet your HPC needs! Note: Pluto is proof-of-concept application to set up a small, working Charmed HPC cluster for personal experimentation. It **should not** be used for production-level deployments. **Usage** **Requirements** Your system needs to have the following requirements installed to use pluto to deploy a micro-HPC cluster: * snapd * juju 3.1 or greater Also, you should have access to a Juju supported cloud as well. Pluto only supports machine charms, so Kubernetes-base clouds such as microk8s or Google GKE are not supported. If you are planning on using LXD as your cloud, see the section *Appendix: Using LXD* for extra steps before you bootstrap the micro-HPC cluster. **Setting up Juju** After installing snapd and juju, bootstrap a cloud controller using the following command: ``` juju bootstrap ``` You will be taken an interactive dialog to configure your cloud controller. Please visit the Juju documentation for specific information on how to bootstrap a Juju controller for your target cloud. **Bootstrapping your micro-HPC cloud** Once the Juju controller for the cloud of you choice has been bootstrapped, use `snap` to install pluto: ``` sudo snap install pluto ``` Now use the following command to bootstrap your micro-HPC cluster: ``` pluto bootstrap ``` In several minutes you will now have access to your very own micro-HPC cluster! Have fun! **Appendix: Using LXD** pluto will not initially work with LXD due to LXD containers being initially unable to mount or export NFS shares. This has to do with LXD containers AppArmor configuration. To enable NFS exporting/mounting, use the following commands to modify the default LXD profile on your system. This needs to be done *before* you bootstrap the micro-HPC cluster with pluto: ``` lxc profile set default security.privileged true lxc profile set default raw.apparmor 'mount fstype=nfs*, mount fstype=rpc_pipefs,' ``` Note: Given that you need to elevate the privileges of the LXD containers for the micro-HPC cluster to function, it is strongly recommended to use another cloud such as OpenStack or MAAS. ### Package name * pluto --- ### License * GPL-3.0-only --- ### Last updated * 3 November 2023 - latest/edge This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues. --- ### Websites * [github.com/NucciTheBoss/pluto](https://github.com/NucciTheBoss/pluto "https://github.com/NucciTheBoss/pluto") --- ### Contact * [jason.nucciarone@canonical.com](mailto:jason.nucciarone@canonical.com "mailto:jason.nucciarone@canonical.com") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/rhel#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install pluto Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions. ### Enable snapd Snap is available for [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8](https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward. The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below. The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 9** with the following command: ``` sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf upgrade ``` The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 8** with the following command: ``` sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf upgrade ``` The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 7** with the following command: ``` sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm ``` Adding the *optional* and *extras* repositories is also recommended: ``` sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms" sudo yum update ``` Snap can now be installed as follows: ``` sudo yum install snapd ``` Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket ``` To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`: ``` sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap ``` Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly. ### Install pluto To install pluto, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install pluto --edge ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? 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