Blender Crowd Renderfarm

Designed for Ubuntu 18.04, sorry other OS's or Ref's are not supported at this time.

This role was designed for a packer build process to generate blender render node AMIs

As of right now:

• Installs Blender 2.81a
• Installs CrowdRender 2.2
• Adds CR2.2 to blender configuration
• Starts CR headless server

Also Installs:

• unzip
• libglu1
• libxi6
• libxrender1

Help Wanted / TODO

• Ansible side
  • Multi-OS support
  • Downloading source from CR instead of using local file (having issues with the download redirect)

Requirements

• Ansible 2.6+ (py3 preferable)
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Strong internet connection

Role Variables

Note: I have not tested if you can safely mix and match these variables, honestly this role was designed for a specific installation which places blender in /home/$USER/blender and crowdrender in .config/blender/{{blender.version}}/scripts/addons

• localTesting
  • Used by vagrant for local runs
• servicePath
  • path to install the systemd UNIT file
  • default /etc/systemd/system
• serviceSuffix
  • suffix for systemd unit file
  • default service
• awsGPU
  • NOT IMPLEMENTED
  • Toggle for whether to configure AWS P-series support (CUDA?)
  • default false
• blender
  • version
    • Should match the version used in directory paths
    • default 2.81
  • source
    • Download source for this version of blender (linux x86_64 archived)
  • checksum
    • NOT IMPLEMENTED yet
• crowdRender
  • relativePath
    • Installation path for crowd render
    • default .config/blender/{{blender.version}}/scripts/addons
  • pathToStart
    • Path to the server start file
    • default src/py_3_7/serv_int_start.py
  • source
    • Name of the local-to-role source file for crowdrender
    • default cr_022_bl280.zip

Dependencies

• ansible
  • naftulikay.degoss
    • Used for testing in local vagrant instance

Example Playbook

requirements.yml

---
- src: https://github.com/asciifaceman/ansible.blender-crowd-renderfarm
  name: asciifaceman.blender-crowd-renderfarm

Note: CrAuthToken is not yet implemented due to ansible having a problem contacting CrowdRender's download properly.

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: asciifaceman.ansible.blender-crowd-renderfarm, CrAuthToken: token }

License

BSD

Author Information

Charles Corbett