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Installation Overview

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* Installation Definition: refers to the process of setting up software, systems, or hardware so that it is ready for use in a specific environment and functions as intended.*

Greetings!

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We’re excited to have you here as you begin your journey with Opstella Installation.

The key sections include:

  1. Planning and Prerequisites - Before Perform the installation, you must acknowledge what is required and lay out your information of what should be done.

  2. Prepare/Install Opstella Dependencies

    1. Prepare Kubernetes Cluster - Where your Applications that will be managed with Opstella through Onboarding Processes (called, Opstella-managed Applications), will live on.
    2. Install DevSecOps System - Services that will provide Opstella-managed Application the DevSecOps Methodology/Processes.
    3. Install Observability System - Services that will provide Opstella-managed Application the Observability Methodology/Processes.

  3. Install Opstella Software - The Software that you will be using!

  4. Configuration and Integration – Perform Initial Configuration that required for Opstella to perform as designed.

  5. End-to-End Testing – Essential tasks to ensure that installed Opstella works properly.

Checkups before Continue … ✋

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Before diving in, it’s important to have a solid understanding of the following.

Knowledge and Techical Skills Required 💪

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  • Ability to Use and Understand Linux Command Line Interface
  • Basic to Intermediate Linux Skills (Linux Terminology, Operations, Troubleshooting)
  • Basic Kubernetes Skills (Kubernetes Terminology, Operations, Helm)

Optional, but a BIG Plus 🛟

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  • Read Platform Architecture, to better understand components (Opstella, and its dependencies.) that you need to prepare or going to perform provision or installation.

Guided Assumptions

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A single guide won’t satisfy all of the needs as it’s unlikely going to compatible with every single infrastructure or site.

So, assumptions must be made. You may need to change something to make it fit with your environment.

While reading in the later section, content will include what are being assumed.

Conveyed as a colored box like this with heading: Guided Assumptions