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<div class="section" id="installation-configuration">
<h1>Installation &amp; Configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#installation-configuration" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="getting-started">
<h2>Getting Started<a class="headerlink" href="#getting-started" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Caravel is tested using Python 2.7 and Python 3.4+. Python 3 is the recommended version,
Python 2.6 won&#8217;t be supported.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="os-dependencies">
<h2>OS dependencies<a class="headerlink" href="#os-dependencies" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Caravel stores database connection information in its metadata database.
For that purpose, we use the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cryptography</span></code> Python library to encrypt
connection passwords. Unfortunately this library has OS level dependencies.</p>
<p>You may want to attempt the next step
(&#8220;Caravel installation and initialization&#8221;) and come back to this step if
you encounter an error.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how to install them:</p>
<p>For <strong>Debian</strong> and <strong>Ubuntu</strong>, the following command will ensure that
the required dependencies are installed:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">sudo</span> <span class="n">apt</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">get</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">build</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">essential</span> <span class="n">libssl</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">dev</span> <span class="n">libffi</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">dev</span> <span class="n">python</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">dev</span> <span class="n">python</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">pip</span> <span class="n">libsasl2</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">dev</span> <span class="n">libldap2</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">dev</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>For <strong>Fedora</strong> and <strong>RHEL-derivatives</strong>, the following command will ensure
that the required dependencies are installed:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">sudo</span> <span class="n">yum</span> <span class="n">upgrade</span> <span class="n">python</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">setuptools</span>
<span class="n">sudo</span> <span class="n">yum</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">gcc</span> <span class="n">libffi</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">devel</span> <span class="n">python</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">devel</span> <span class="n">python</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">pip</span> <span class="n">python</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">wheel</span> <span class="n">openssl</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">devel</span> <span class="n">libsasl2</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">devel</span> <span class="n">openldap</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">devel</span>
</pre></div>
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<p><strong>OSX</strong>, system python is not recommended. brew&#8217;s python also ships with pip</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">brew</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">pkg</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">config</span> <span class="n">libffi</span> <span class="n">openssl</span> <span class="n">python</span>
<span class="n">env</span> <span class="n">LDFLAGS</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib&quot;</span> <span class="n">CFLAGS</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include&quot;</span> <span class="n">pip</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">cryptography</span>
</pre></div>
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<p><strong>Windows</strong> isn&#8217;t officially supported at this point, but if you want to
attempt it, download <a class="reference external" href="https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py">get-pip.py</a>, and run <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python</span> <span class="pre">get-pip.py</span></code> which may need admin access. Then run the following:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">C</span><span class="p">:</span>\<span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="n">pip</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">cryptography</span>
<span class="c1"># You may also have to create C:\Temp</span>
<span class="n">C</span><span class="p">:</span>\<span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="n">md</span> <span class="n">C</span><span class="p">:</span>\<span class="n">Temp</span>
</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="python-virtualenv">
<h2>Python virtualenv<a class="headerlink" href="#python-virtualenv" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>It is recommended to install Caravel inside a virtualenv. Python 3 already ships virtualenv, for
Python 2 you need to install it. If it&#8217;s packaged for your operating systems install it from there
otherwise you can install from pip:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">pip</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">virtualenv</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>You can create and activate a virtualenv by:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># virtualenv is shipped in Python 3 as pyvenv</span>
<span class="n">virtualenv</span> <span class="n">venv</span>
<span class="o">.</span> <span class="o">./</span><span class="n">venv</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nb">bin</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">activate</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>On windows the syntax for activating it is a bit different:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">venv</span>\<span class="n">Scripts</span>\<span class="n">activate</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Once you activated your virtualenv everything you are doing is confined inside the virtualenv.
To exit a virtualenv just type <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">deactivate</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="python-s-setup-tools-and-pip">
<h2>Python&#8217;s setup tools and pip<a class="headerlink" href="#python-s-setup-tools-and-pip" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Put all the chances on your side by getting the very latest <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span></code>
and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">setuptools</span></code> libraries.:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">pip</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">upgrade</span> <span class="n">setuptools</span> <span class="n">pip</span>
</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="caravel-installation-and-initialization">
<h2>Caravel installation and initialization<a class="headerlink" href="#caravel-installation-and-initialization" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Follow these few simple steps to install Caravel.:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Install caravel</span>
<span class="n">pip</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">caravel</span>
<span class="c1"># Create an admin user</span>
<span class="n">fabmanager</span> <span class="n">create</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">admin</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">app</span> <span class="n">caravel</span>
<span class="c1"># Initialize the database</span>
<span class="n">caravel</span> <span class="n">db</span> <span class="n">upgrade</span>
<span class="c1"># Load some data to play with</span>
<span class="n">caravel</span> <span class="n">load_examples</span>
<span class="c1"># Create default roles and permissions</span>
<span class="n">caravel</span> <span class="n">init</span>
<span class="c1"># Start the web server on port 8088</span>
<span class="n">caravel</span> <span class="n">runserver</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">p</span> <span class="mi">8088</span>
<span class="c1"># To start a development web server, use the -d switch</span>
<span class="c1"># caravel runserver -d</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>After installation, you should be able to point your browser to the right
hostname:port <a class="reference external" href="http://localhost:8088">http://localhost:8088</a>, login using
the credential you entered while creating the admin account, and navigate to
<cite>Menu -&gt; Admin -&gt; Refresh Metadata</cite>. This action should bring in all of
your datasources for Caravel to be aware of, and they should show up in
<cite>Menu -&gt; Datasources</cite>, from where you can start playing with your data!</p>
<p>Please note that <em>gunicorn</em>, Caravel default application server, does not
work on Windows so you need to use the development web server.
The development web server though is not intended to be used on production systems
so better use a supported platform that can run <em>gunicorn</em>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configuration-behind-a-load-balancer">
<h2>Configuration behind a load balancer<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-behind-a-load-balancer" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>If you are running caravel behind a load balancer or reverse proxy (e.g. NGINX
or ELB on AWS), you may need to utilise a healthcheck endpoint so that your
load balancer knows if your caravel instance is running. This is provided
at <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/health</span></code> which will return a 200 response containing &#8220;OK&#8221; if the
webserver is running.</p>
<p>If the load balancer is inserting X-Forwarded-For/X-Forwarded-Proto headers, you
should set <cite>ENABLE_PROXY_FIX = True</cite> in the caravel config file to extract and use
the headers.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configuration">
<h2>Configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>To configure your application, you need to create a file (module)
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">caravel_config.py</span></code> and make sure it is in your PYTHONPATH. Here are some
of the parameters you can copy / paste in that configuration module:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1">#---------------------------------------------------------</span>
<span class="c1"># Caravel specific config</span>
<span class="c1">#---------------------------------------------------------</span>
<span class="n">ROW_LIMIT</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5000</span>
<span class="n">CARAVEL_WORKERS</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span>
<span class="n">CARAVEL_WEBSERVER_PORT</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">8088</span>
<span class="c1">#---------------------------------------------------------</span>
<span class="c1">#---------------------------------------------------------</span>
<span class="c1"># Flask App Builder configuration</span>
<span class="c1">#---------------------------------------------------------</span>
<span class="c1"># Your App secret key</span>
<span class="n">SECRET_KEY</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;</span><span class="se">\2\1</span><span class="s1">thisismyscretkey</span><span class="se">\1\2</span><span class="s1">\e\y\y\h&#39;</span>
<span class="c1"># The SQLAlchemy connection string to your database backend</span>
<span class="c1"># This connection defines the path to the database that stores your</span>
<span class="c1"># caravel metadata (slices, connections, tables, dashboards, ...).</span>
<span class="c1"># Note that the connection information to connect to the datasources</span>
<span class="c1"># you want to explore are managed directly in the web UI</span>
<span class="n">SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;sqlite:////path/to/caravel.db&#39;</span>
<span class="c1"># Flask-WTF flag for CSRF</span>
<span class="n">CSRF_ENABLED</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">True</span>
<span class="c1"># Set this API key to enable Mapbox visualizations</span>
<span class="n">MAPBOX_API_KEY</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This file also allows you to define configuration parameters used by
Flask App Builder, the web framework used by Caravel. Please consult
the <a class="reference external" href="http://flask-appbuilder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/config.html">Flask App Builder Documentation</a>
for more information on how to configure Caravel.</p>
<p>Please make sure to change:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><em>SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI</em>, by default it is stored at <em>~/.caravel/caravel.db</em></li>
<li><em>SECRET_KEY</em>, to a long random string</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="database-dependencies">
<h2>Database dependencies<a class="headerlink" href="#database-dependencies" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Caravel does not ship bundled with connectivity to databases, except
for Sqlite, which is part of the Python standard library.
You&#8217;ll need to install the required packages for the database you
want to use as your metadata database as well as the packages needed to
connect to the databases you want to access through Caravel.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a list of some of the recommended packages.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="15%" />
<col width="37%" />
<col width="49%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">database</th>
<th class="head">pypi package</th>
<th class="head">SQLAlchemy URI prefix</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="row-even"><td>MySQL</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">mysqlclient</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">mysql://</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Postgres</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">psycopg2</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">postgresql+psycopg2://</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>Presto</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">pyhive</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">presto://</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Oracle</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">cx_Oracle</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">oracle://</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>sqlite</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sqlite://</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Redshift</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">sqlalchemy-redshift</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">redshift+psycopg2://</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>MSSQL</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">pymssql</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">mssql://</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Impala</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">impyla</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">impala://</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>SparkSQL</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">pyhive</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">jdbc+hive://</span></code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Note that many other database are supported, the main criteria being the
existence of a functional SqlAlchemy dialect and Python driver. Googling
the keyword <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sqlalchemy</span></code> in addition of a keyword that describes the
database you want to connect to should get you to the right place.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="caching">
<h2>Caching<a class="headerlink" href="#caching" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Caravel uses <a class="reference external" href="https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Cache/">Flask-Cache</a> for
caching purpose. Configuring your caching backend is as easy as providing
a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CACHE_CONFIG</span></code>, constant in your <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">caravel_config.py</span></code> that
complies with the Flask-Cache specifications.</p>
<p>Flask-Cache supports multiple caching backends (Redis, Memcached,
SimpleCache (in-memory), or the local filesystem). If you are going to use
Memcached please use the pylibmc client library as python-memcached does
not handle storing binary data correctly. If you use Redis, please install
[python-redis](<a class="reference external" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/redis">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/redis</a>).</p>
<p>For setting your timeouts, this is done in the Caravel metadata and goes
up the &#8220;timeout searchpath&#8221;, from your slice configuration, to your
data source&#8217;s configuration, to your database&#8217;s and ultimately falls back
into your global default defined in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CACHE_CONFIG</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="deeper-sqlalchemy-integration">
<h2>Deeper SQLAlchemy integration<a class="headerlink" href="#deeper-sqlalchemy-integration" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>It is possible to tweak the database connection information using the
parameters exposed by SQLAlchemy. In the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Database</span></code> edit view, you will
find an <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra</span></code> field as a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">JSON</span></code> blob.</p>
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="_images/add_db.png"><img alt="_images/add_db.png" src="_images/add_db.png" style="width: 534.0px; height: 370.8px;" /></a>
<p>This JSON string contains extra configuration elements. The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">engine_params</span></code>
object gets unpacked into the
<a class="reference external" href="http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/engines.html#sqlalchemy.create_engine">sqlalchemy.create_engine</a> call,
while the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">metadata_params</span></code> get unpacked into the
<a class="reference external" href="http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_1_0/core/metadata.html#sqlalchemy.schema.MetaData">sqlalchemy.MetaData</a> call. Refer to the SQLAlchemy docs for more information.</p>
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<div class="section" id="schemas-postgres-redshift">
<h2>Schemas (Postgres &amp; Redshift)<a class="headerlink" href="#schemas-postgres-redshift" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Postgres and Redshift, as well as other database,
use the concept of <strong>schema</strong> as a logical entity
on top of the <strong>database</strong>. For Caravel to connect to a specific schema,
there&#8217;s a <strong>schema</strong> parameter you can set in the table form.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="ssl-access-to-databases">
<h2>SSL Access to databases<a class="headerlink" href="#ssl-access-to-databases" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>This example worked with a MySQL database that requires SSL. The configuration
may differ with other backends. This is what was put in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra</span></code>
parameter</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;metadata_params&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{},</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;engine_params&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;connect_args&quot;</span><span class="p">:{</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;sslmode&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="s2">&quot;require&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;sslrootcert&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;/path/to/my/pem&quot;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="druid">
<h2>Druid<a class="headerlink" href="#druid" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>From the UI, enter the information about your clusters in the
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Admin-&gt;Clusters</span></code> menu by hitting the + sign.</li>
<li>Once the Druid cluster connection information is entered, hit the
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Admin-&gt;Refresh</span> <span class="pre">Metadata</span></code> menu item to populate</li>
<li>Navigate to your datasources</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that you can run the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">caravel</span> <span class="pre">refresh_druid</span></code> command to refresh the
metadata from your Druid cluster(s)</p>
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<div class="section" id="cors">
<h2>CORS<a class="headerlink" href="#cors" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The extra CORS Dependency must be installed:</p>
<blockquote>
<div>caravel[cors]</div></blockquote>
<p>The following keys in <cite>caravel_config.py</cite> can be specified to configure CORS:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ENABLE_CORS</span></code>: Must be set to True in order to enable CORS</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CORS_OPTIONS</span></code>: options passed to Flask-CORS (<cite>documentation &lt;http://flask-cors.corydolphin.com/en/latest/api.html#extension&gt;</cite>)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="upgrading">
<h2>Upgrading<a class="headerlink" href="#upgrading" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Upgrading should be as straightforward as running:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">pip</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">caravel</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">upgrade</span>
<span class="n">caravel</span> <span class="n">db</span> <span class="n">upgrade</span>
<span class="n">caravel</span> <span class="n">init</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="sql-lab">
<h2>SQL Lab<a class="headerlink" href="#sql-lab" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>SQL Lab is a powerful SQL IDE that works with all SQLAlchemy compatible
databases out there. By default, queries are run in a web request, and
may eventually timeout as queries exceed the maximum duration of a web
request in your environment, whether it&#8217;d be a reverse proxy or the Caravel
server itself.</p>
<p>In the modern analytics world, it&#8217;s not uncommon to run large queries that
run for minutes or hours.
To enable support for long running queries that
execute beyond the typical web request&#8217;s timeout (30-60 seconds), it is
necessary to deploy an asynchronous backend, which consist of one or many
Caravel worker, which is implemented as a Celery worker, and a Celery
broker for which we recommend using Redis or RabbitMQ.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also preferable to setup an async result backend as a key value store
that can hold the long-running query results for a period of time. More
details to come as to how to set this up here soon.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="making-your-own-build">
<h2>Making your own build<a class="headerlink" href="#making-your-own-build" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>For more advanced users, you may want to build Caravel from sources. That
would be the case if you fork the project to add features specific to
your environment.:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># assuming $CARAVEL_HOME as the root of the repo
cd $CARAVEL_HOME/caravel/assets
npm install
npm run prod
cd $CARAVEL_HOME
python setup.py install
</pre></div>
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