To test Smartfacts in your infrastructure, you can perform an internal PoC installation. These pages describe the procedure to perform such an internal PoC installation.
Restrictions of a PoC deployment
To simplify the installation process, the following restrictions apply to a PoC installation:
If you don't have a Kubernetes Cluster available, the installation can be performed on a single Linux server with a single-node Kubernetes cluster using k3s. If you do have a Kubernetes cluster, the installation can be performed on this cluster.
Smartfacts will not connect to any identity provider. In the PoC you will work with dummy usershat are provisioned in advance.
Smartfacts will not send emails to users.
All other functionality will be usable as in a later production deployment.
General steps
For installing as Smartfacts PoC instance perform the following steps.
Prepare your infrastructure
Get access to container and chart registry
Install Smartfacts
Prepare your infrastructure
Provide a Server
Please provide a server that meets the following requirements:
CPU:
x64 / AMD64 processor - ARM based servers will not work
Minimum: 6 Cores
RAM: minimum 32 GB
Hard disk: minimum 150 GB
Most of the data will be stored under
/var/lib/rancher/k3s
Operating System: Linux
All Linux distributions running K3s can be used.
If you are using a Red Hat / CentOS Linux, please perform these preparations:
It is recommended to turn off firewalld:
systemctl disable firewalld --now
If enabled, it is required to disable nm-cloud-setup and reboot the node:
systemctl disable nm-cloud-setup.service nm-cloud-setup.timer
reboot
The user performing the installation will need sudo privileges
The server must be connected to the internet
Create the DNS entries for Smartfacts Server and Subdomains
Set up DNS entries for the following FQDNs
<Server-FQDN>
smartfacts.<Server-FQDN>
camp.<Server-FQDN>
identity.<Server-FQDN>
oslc.<Server-FQDN>
genoslc.<Server-FQDN>
Create an X.509 Certificate
Create the certificates according to the instructions on Creating and testing the Certificates for Smartfacts.
Get credentials and Smartfacts license
Please contact cops@mid.de. We will send you credentials for accessing our container & chart registry and a PoC license.
Install Smartfacts
We recommend that your server can directly acces our container and chart repository. In this case follow the instructions for a Deployment on Kubernetes with Internet Connection.
If your server does not have internet acces, follow the instracionts for a Deployment on Kubernetes without Internet Connection.
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