This project contains the source code for both the client and server components of the SLATE platform. These components can be built independently, following the instructions below.

For information on using the SLATE client see the client manual.

Common:

• CMake
• OpenSSL
• libcurl
• zlib

Server Only:

• Boost
• Amazon AWS C++ SDK
• yaml-cpp

Additionally, kubectl is needed at runtime by the server and by the the client under some circumstances, and the server requires helm

This project also uses crow, RapidJSON, libcuckoo, and scrypt, but each of these dependencies is sufficiently lightweight that it is copied directly into this codebase.

Note that the CentOS 7 Cmake package is too old to build the AWS SDK, so it is necessary to use the cmake3 package from EPEL. This also means that all cmake commands must be replaced with cmake3 on CentOS systems.

sudo yum install -y gcc-c++
sudo yum install -y openssl-devel
sudo yum install -y libcurl-devel
sudo yum install -y zlib-devel
sudo yum install -y epel-release
sudo yum install -y cmake3

cat <<EOF > kubernetes.repo
[kubernetes]
name=Kubernetes
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/kubernetes-el7-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
EOF
sudo mv kubernetes.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo
sudo yum install -y kubectl

Building the server additionally requires:

sudo yum install -y boost-devel
sudo yum install -y yaml-cpp-devel

sudo apt-get install g++  
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libz-dev
sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install kubectl

Building the server additionally requires:

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install libyaml-cpp-dev

(This section is currently incomplete)

sudo pkg install curl
sudo pkg install cmake

RPMs do not appear to be avilable for this library, so it must be built from source.

In a suitable location:

curl -LO https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp/archive/1.7.25.tar.gz
tar xzf 1.7.25.tar.gz
mkdir aws-sdk-cpp-1.7.25-build
cd aws-sdk-cpp-1.7.25-build
cmake ../aws-sdk-cpp-1.7.25 -DBUILD_ONLY="dynamodb;route53" -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=Off
make
sudo make install

In the slate-client-server directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. [options]
make

Options for cmake include:

• -DBUILD_CLIENT=<True|False> which sets whether the client will be built (default is True)
• -DBUILD_SERVER=<True|False> which sets whether the server will be built (default is True)
• -DBUILD_SERVER_TESTS=<True|False> which sets whether the server will be built (default is True); this option makes sense only when the server will be built
• -DSTATIC_CLIENT=True which builds the client as a static binary (defaults to false); this option works correctly only on Alpine Linux (or a system with suitable static libraries available)

Running make will generate the slate-client or slate-service executables, depending on the options selected.