Local Hosting with Multipass

Install Multipass and Terraform for your operating system. On a Mac (Intel), you can also install via Homebrew e.g.

brew install multipass terraform jq

Clone workshop repository:

git clone https://github.com/splunk/observability-workshop

Change into Multipass directory:

cd observability-workshop/local-hosting/multipass

Log Observer Connect:

If you plan to use your own Splunk Observability Cloud Suite Org and or Splunk instance, you may need to create a new Log Observer Connect connection: Follow the instructions found in the documentation for Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprize.

Additional requirements for running your own Log Observer Connect connection are:

• Create an index called splunk4rookies-workshop
• Make sure the Service account user used in the Log observer Connect connection has access to the splunk4rookies-workshop index (you can remove all other indexes, as all workshop log data should go to this index).

Initialize Terraform:

terraform init -upgrade

Create Terraform variables file. Variables are kept in file terrform.tfvars and a template is provided, terraform.tfvars.template, to copy and edit:

cp terraform.tfvars.template terraform.tfvars

The following Terraform variables are required:

• swipe_id: SWiPE ID for the instance
• splunk_index: Splunk Index to send logs to. Defaults to splunk4rookies-workshop.

Instance type variables:

• splunk_presetup: Provide a preconfigured instance (OTel Collector and Online Boutique deployed with RUM enabled). The default is false.
• splunk_diab: Install and run Demo-in-a-Box. The default is false.
• tagging_workshop: Install and configure the Tagging Workshop. The default is false.
• otel_demo : Install and configure the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop Demo. This requires that splunk_presetup is set to false. The default is false.

Optional advanced variables:

• wsversion: Set this to main if working on the development of the workshop, otherwise this can be omitted.
• architecture: Set this to the correct architecture, arm64 or amd64. Defaults to arm64 which is appropriate for Apple Silicon.

Run terraform plan to check that all configuration is OK. Once happy run terraform apply to create the instance.

terraform apply

random_string.hostname: Creating...
random_string.hostname: Creation complete after 0s [id=cynu]
local_file.user_data: Creating...
local_file.user_data: Creation complete after 0s [id=46a5c50e396a1a7820c3999c131a09214db903dd]
multipass_instance.ubuntu: Creating...
multipass_instance.ubuntu: Still creating... [10s elapsed]
multipass_instance.ubuntu: Still creating... [20s elapsed]
...
multipass_instance.ubuntu: Still creating... [1m30s elapsed]
multipass_instance.ubuntu: Creation complete after 1m38s [name=cynu]
data.multipass_instance.ubuntu: Reading...
data.multipass_instance.ubuntu: Read complete after 1s [name=cynu]

Apply complete! Resources: 3 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

instance_details = [
  {
    "image" = "Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS"
    "image_hash" = "345fbbb6ec82 (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS)"
    "ipv4" = "192.168.205.185"
    "name" = "cynu"
    "state" = "Running"
  },
]

Once the instance has been successfully created (this can take several minutes), exec into it using the name from the output above. The password for Multipass instance is Splunk123!.

multipass exec cynu -- su -l splunk

$ multipass exec kdhl -- su -l splunk
Password:
Waiting for cloud-init status...
Your instance is ready!

Validate the instance:

kubectl version --output=yaml

To delete the instance, first make sure you have exited from instance and then run the following command:

terraform destroy