--- title: Install pluto on Linux | Snap Store description: Get the latest version of pluto for Linux - A swiss-army knife for managing HPC clusters built with Ubuntu url: https://snapcraft.io/pluto --- # 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) latest/edge 0.1.0 Install latest/edge of pluto This channel hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues. --- **Install using the command line** ``` sudo snap install pluto --edge ``` Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd). pluto is only available on the unstable edge channel. It could break and change often. --- ### 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/pluto#report-snap-modal) --- * [Description](https://snapcraft.io/pluto#tab-description) * [Security](https://snapcraft.io/pluto#tab-security) #### 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. --- ## Install pluto on your Linux distribution Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd). [### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/arch) [### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/centos) [### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/debian) [### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/elementary) [### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/fedora) [### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/kde-neon) [### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/kubuntu) [### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/manjaro) [### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/pop) [### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/opensuse) [### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/rhel) [### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/pluto/ubuntu)