Following are notes on creating a container as test driver for Congress. This is based upon an Ubuntu host as installed by JOID.

Create and Activate the Container

sudo lxc-create -n trusty-copper -t /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-ubuntu -- -b ubuntu ~/opnfv

sudo lxc-start -n trusty-copper -d

sudo lxc-info --name trusty-copper
Name:           trusty-copper
State:          RUNNING
PID:            4563
IP:             10.0.3.44
CPU use:        28.77 seconds
BlkIO use:      522.79 MiB
Memory use:     559.75 MiB
KMem use:       0 bytes
Link:           vethDMFOAN
 TX bytes:      2.62 MiB
 RX bytes:      88.48 MiB
 Total bytes:   91.10 MiB

Login and configure the test server

ssh ubuntu@10.0.3.44
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

# Install pip
sudo apt-get install python-pip -y

# Install java
sudo apt-get install default-jre -y

# Install other dependencies
sudo apt-get install git gcc python-dev libxml2 libxslt1-dev libzip-dev php5-curl -y

# Setup OpenStack environment variables per your OPNFV install
export CONGRESS_HOST=192.168.10.117
export KEYSTONE_HOST=192.168.10.108
export CEILOMETER_HOST=192.168.10.105
export CINDER_HOST=192.168.10.101
export GLANCE_HOST=192.168.10.106
export HEAT_HOST=192.168.10.107
export NEUTRON_HOST=192.168.10.111
export NOVA_HOST=192.168.10.112
source ~/admin-openrc.sh

# Install and test OpenStack client
mkdir ~/git
cd git
git clone https://github.com/openstack/python-openstackclient.git
cd python-openstackclient
git checkout stable/liberty
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo python setup.py install
openstack service list
+----------------------------------+------------+----------------+
| ID                               | Name       | Type           |
+----------------------------------+------------+----------------+
| 2f8799ae50f24c928c021fabf8a50f5f | keystone   | identity       |
| 351b13f56d9a4e25849406ec1d5a2726 | cinder     | volume         |
| 5129510c3143454f9ba8ec7e6735e267 | cinderv2   | volumev2       |
| 5ee1e220460f41dea9be06921400ce9b | congress   | policy         |
| 78e73a7789a14f56a5d248a0cd141201 | quantum    | network        |
| 9d5a00fb475a45b2ae6767528299ed6b | ceilometer | metering       |
| 9e4b1624ef0b434abc0b82f607c5045c | heat       | orchestration  |
| b6c01ceb5023442d9f394b83f2a18e01 | heat-cfn   | cloudformation |
| ba6199e3505045ad87e2a7175bd0c57f | glance     | image          |
| d753f304a0d541dbb989780ae70328a8 | nova       | compute        |
+----------------------------------+------------+----------------+

# Install and test Congress client
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/openstack/python-congressclient.git
cd python-congressclient
git checkout stable/liberty
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo python setup.py install
openstack congress driver list
+------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| id         | description                                                              |
+------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ceilometer | Datasource driver that interfaces with ceilometer.                       |
| neutronv2  | Datasource driver that interfaces with OpenStack Networking aka Neutron. |
| nova       | Datasource driver that interfaces with OpenStack Compute aka nova.       |
| keystone   | Datasource driver that interfaces with keystone.                         |
| cinder     | Datasource driver that interfaces with OpenStack cinder.                 |
| glancev2   | Datasource driver that interfaces with OpenStack Images aka Glance.      |
+------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

# Install and test Glance client
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/openstack/python-glanceclient.git
cd python-glanceclient
git checkout stable/liberty
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo python setup.py install
glance image-list
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+
| ID                                   | Name                |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+
| 6ce4433e-65c0-4cd8-958d-b06e30c76241 | cirros-0.3.3-x86_64 |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+

# Install and test Neutron client
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/openstack/python-neutronclient.git
cd python-neutronclient
git checkout stable/liberty
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo python setup.py install
neutron net-list
+--------------------------------------+----------+------------------------------------------------------+
| id                                   | name     | subnets                                              |
+--------------------------------------+----------+------------------------------------------------------+
| dc6227df-af41-439f-bd2c-c2c2f0fe7fc5 | public   | 5745846c-dd79-4900-a7da-bf506348ceac 192.168.10.0/24 |
| a3f9f13a-5de9-4d3b-98c8-d2e40a2ef8e9 | internal | 5e0be862-90da-44ab-af43-56d5c65aa049 10.0.0.0/24     |
+--------------------------------------+----------+------------------------------------------------------+

# Install and test Nova client
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient.git
cd python-novaclient
git checkout stable/liberty
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo python setup.py install
nova hypervisor-list
+----+---------------------+-------+---------+
| ID | Hypervisor hostname | State | Status  |
+----+---------------------+-------+---------+
| 1  | compute1.maas       | up    | enabled |
+----+---------------------+-------+---------+

# Install and test Keystone client
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/openstack/python-keystoneclient.git
cd python-keystoneclient
git checkout stable/liberty
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo python setup.py install

Setup the Congress Test Webapp

# Clone Copper (if not already cloned in user home)
cd ~/git
if [ ! -d ~/git/copper ]; then git clone https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/copper; fi

# Copy the Apache config
sudo cp ~/git/copper/components/congress/test-webapp/www/ubuntu-apache2.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

# Point proxy.php to the Congress server per your install
sed -i -- "s/192.168.10.117/$CONGRESS_HOST/g" \
  ~/git/copper/components/congress/test-webapp/www/html/proxy/index.php

# Copy the webapp to the Apache root directory and fix permissions
sudo cp -R ~/git/copper/components/congress/test-webapp/www/html /var/www
sudo chmod 755 /var/www/html -R

# Make webapp log directory and set permissions
mkdir ~/logs
chmod 777 ~/logs

# Restart Apache
sudo service apache2 restart

Using the Test Webapp

Browse to the trusty-copper server IP address.

Interactive options are meant to be self-explanatory given a basic familiarity with the Congress service and data model. But the app will be developed with additional features and UI elements.