Welcome to Swarmlab.io

Swarmlab is a powerful collaboration tool that connects tutors and students

in a unique all-in-one environment that gets work done fast and easily

Ready-to-Use Virtual Labs one click away.

Table of contents

1. Features
2. System requirements
3. Prerequisites
4. Installation
5. More info

Features

Share your exercises and content as a tutor and access it as student on demand

On demand Labrooms

• Ready to use virtual labs
• Optimized for both Students and Tutors
• Tutors bootstrap their labrooms using our tools
• Students can join the created labrooms according to their interrests

Labroom hybrid

• Run and manage applications
• Scale up or down without rebuilding
• Connect multiple computers through a network.
• Move Labs between environments
• Create your own labs

System requirements

Before you create and configure a hybrid deployment using the swarmlab-agent client, your Local Machines need to meet certain requirements.

If you don't meet those requirements, you won't be able to complete the steps within the swarmlab-agent client and you won't be able to configure a hybrid deployment between your Local Enviroment and Swarmlab Online Enviroment.

• A Linux Server (Virtual or Physical)
• You must have super user privileges (sudo)
• Docker Engine- Community version 18 or later is required.
• Docker Engine is supported on x86_64 (or amd64), armhf, and arm64 architectures.
• RAM
• Absolute minimum to run the daemon and some very light containers - 512MB
• Minimum for “comfortable” usage – 2GB
• CPU
• Minimum: 2
• Recommended 4+
• Disk Space
• 10 GB for internal requirements.
• The amount of additional disk space required for load file staging, persistence, or backups depends on the size of the data to be loaded.

Docker uses a hypervisor with a VM, and the host server must support virtualization.

Prerequisites

• node version >15

  curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_15.x | sudo -E bash -
  sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
  

• docker

  curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
  sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install -y docker-ce
  sudo usermod -aG docker [USERNAME]
  

• docker-compose

  sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.27.4/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose
  

• pm2

  sudo npm install -g pm2
  

• wireguard

  sudo apt install wireguard jq
  

Installation

- Clone the repo

git clone https://git.swarmlab.io:3000/zeus/swarmlab-hybrid.git

• Install it!

  cd swarmlab-hybrid
  ./install.sh
  

• Open URL http://localhost:3088 in browser

• Get a Swarmlab account.

• Get a free API Key at Settings->Enable the Swarmlab hybrid Menu

More Info

You can find our docs in docs Directory

The Swarmlab docs are in AsciiDoc (similar to markdown), PDF and html format

Asciidoc add-on can be found here:

http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/labs/Howtos/doclive/asciidoc.adoc.html#_setup_live_preview_using_a_web_browser