Welcome

ACS (ALMA Common Software) is a framework for implementing a distributed container/component software machine. You can use it to develop and run custom components with some desired functionality. In these tutorial series we will explore ACS main features, from and for someone new to this tool, in order to gain familiarity with the framework. Hopefully we will find some interesting ways of using ACS, coding simple experimental components. ACS may seem big and complex at first, but we will code our way out of this image, in a condensed approach.

Before running the tutorial examples and exercises you will have to install ACS. In the next section we provide instructions to install ACS in a docker container.

References:

• The ALMA Common Software (ACS) as a basis for a distributed software development (2001)
• Common Software for the ALMA project (2001)
• ALMA Software Development Tools and Integration Guidelines
• Online documentation
• Slides and papers

Clone repository

1. Install Git LFS

   Code Block
   language bash
   sudo apt update sudo apt install git-lfs

2. Clone

   Code Block
   language bash
   git clone https://bitbucket.alma.cl/scm/asw/acs.git

Configurations

1. Install SELinux

   Code Block
   language bash
   sudo apt install policycoreutils selinux-utils selinux-basics sudo selinux-activate sudo selinux-config-enforcing

2. Edit docker .env file

   Code Block
   language bash
   cd Virtualization/Docker/Dev/

3. Edit .env file
4. blabla

Run container

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