Allow HPC-Toolset Demo external access

[SilasMarner]

Hello we are looking into OpenOndemand and trying to look at the nice hpc-toolset demo pulled from
https://github.com/ubccr/hpc-toolset-tutorial/blob/master

I have an internal OpenStack setup where I have my virtual machine and pulled down the containers and everything is working with that regard.

The virtual machine has no browser or X or remote forwarding to launch and interact it as if we were logged in to it directly so we would like to access the demo ‘remotely’. I have firewall rules which allow me to access the cloudfront interface on 1.2.3.4:2443 as well as the other ports.

When I am trying to get to the actual ondemand interface it keeps redirecting to localhost:3443. Is there a way to get the demo to all listen and use 1.2.3.4 so we can test it out and see how the pieces connect together.

Thank you.

[jeff.ohrstrom]

Hi and welcome! I’m not sure if this is possible out of the box. Here are some hacks you’d likely need to do:

1. use the host network for the ood container. This will ensure that the hostname apache has to recognize is valid.
   Compose file version 3 reference | Docker Documentation
2. Create and mount a file /etc/ood/config/ood_portal.yml that has the servername attribute that you’d like (i.e., not localhost).

And that may actually do it.

That said - if you have easy VM technology (like OpenStack) you may be better off just installing the .rpm (or .deb) and installing on the host directly.