Getting started with Netflix Suro

#1 Installing the Git

Per the Linux version use the command to install the Git, below are a few samples:

• Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install git

• RHEL/Fedora: yum install git

#2 Building Suro Server

Create a new directory to clone source code

mkdir netflix

Before cloning make sure HTTPs verification is set to false or else necessary certifcates are in place, I choose a simple strategy, i.e. configured ssl verification to false.

git config --global http.sslVerify false

Clone the source from the git root master branch:

git clone https://github.com/Netflix/suro.git

With this you will have all code available in ./suro folder. 

cd suro

Next step is to build the suro server. I am skipping test cases as well.

 ./gradlew build -x test

#3 Starting Suro server

 ./gradlew installApp

Copy all server libraries at a seprate location

cp -r ~/netflix/suro/suro-server/build/install/suro-server/lib/  ~/netflix/installs/suroserver

Finally start the server using below command:

java -cp "./lib/*"  com.netflix.suro.SuroServer -m conf/routingmap.json -s conf/sink.json 

#4 Checking the system health

To check whether server has started successfully:

http://HOSTNAME:7103/healthcheck

This service should return 200 OK with SuroServer-OK message.

Challenges Faced

#PEER NOT AUTHENTICATED

> Could not resolve com.leansoft:bigqueue:0.7.0. Required by: com.netflix.suro:suro-kafka:0.2.2-thrift-0.7.1 com.netflix.suro:suro-kafka:0.2.2-thrift-0.7.1 > com.netflix.suro:suro-core:0.2.2-thrift-0.7.1 > Could not GET 'https://raw.github.com/bulldog2011/bulldog-repo/master/repo/releases/com/leansoft/bigqueue/0.7.0/bigqueue-0.7.0.pom'. > peer not authenticated

Above was the error which I faced. On further analysis found the issue was because of JAVA_HOME was not set.

# RUNNING SURO ON WINDOWS

Refer https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/suro-users/PZY5LJdOu34 for more details