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Create Wiki Stack

Service provisioning is the creation of a working instance of a service that is based on a service stack. In this procedure, you create a service stack for Wiki deployment that consists of the applications that you have already defined, and the number of machines that are required to host the service.

Follow these steps:

  1. Click Resources, and in the Explore tree, right-click OnDemand Services, and select New Service Stack.

    The Create Service Stack panel opens.

  2. Input a name and description for the service stack and select the number of machines that are required to host the service. The number of machines depends on the expected load of the wiki web page and the amount of content that you intend to store on it. In this example, we install all application on one server.
  3. Click Details to display the configuration of the machine. Leave all the values set to Auto. With this setting, the supported OS types of all applications in the stack are checked during provisioning, and the most convenient VMware stack is automatically selected.
  4. Specify a Service Information File. This HTML file is displayed to the end users at the end of the provisioning process informing them how to access the service.
  5. Click + (New) to add the MediaWiki Content application to the service stack.

    The Service Stack Application Configuration Wizard opens in the Select Applications panel.

  6. Select MediaWiki Content from the list of available defined applications and click Next.

    The Installation Actions panel opens. Do not make any changes here.

  7. Click Next.

    The Confirm Application Configurations panel opens.

  8. Click Finish.

    The Create Service Stack panel updates with the details of the application and machine to host it.

  9. Repeat steps 5 through 8 to add the MediaWiki Database application. Due to the applications prerequisites, the Apache HTTP Server, PHP, and MySQL are added automatically during provisioning.
  10. Click OK.

    CA Server Automation adds the stack to the list of service stacks in the Explore tree. The service stack is ready for provisioning.