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
brew install terraform

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)

Initialise Terraform:

terraform init -upgrade

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

cp terraform.tfvars.template terraform.tfvars

The following Terraform variables are required:

• splunk_access_token: Observability Access Token
• splunk_api_token: Observability API Token
• splunk_rum_token: Observability RUM Token
• splunk_realm: Observability Realm e.g. eu0
• splunk_hec_url: Splunk HEC URL
• splunk_hec_token: Splunk HEC Token

Instance type variables:

• splunk_hec_url: Do not use a Raw Endpoint, but use an Event Endpoint as this will process the logs correctly
• 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.

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), shell into it using the name from the output above e.g.

multipass shell cynu

███████╗██████╗ ██╗     ██╗   ██╗███╗   ██╗██╗  ██╗    ██╗
██╔════╝██╔══██╗██║     ██║   ██║████╗  ██║██║ ██╔╝    ╚██╗
███████╗██████╔╝██║     ██║   ██║██╔██╗ ██║█████╔╝      ╚██╗
╚════██║██╔═══╝ ██║     ██║   ██║██║╚██╗██║██╔═██╗      ██╔╝
███████║██║     ███████╗╚██████╔╝██║ ╚████║██║  ██╗    ██╔╝
╚══════╝╚═╝     ╚══════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═╝  ╚═══╝╚═╝  ╚═╝    ╚═╝

To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details

Waiting for cloud-init status...
Your instance is ready!

ubuntu@cynu ~ $

Change user to splunk (the password is Splunk123!):

su -l splunk

Validate the instance:

kubectl version --output=yaml

To delete the instance, run the following command:

terraform destroy