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Before Rover or Unicycle edge pods can be deployed to an edge site a RC must be deployed to orchestrate their deployment. The same RC is used to deploy all three supported blueprint species.
The RC may be implemented on a physical Bare Metal (BM) server or in a VM.
A 'build server' is used to create an RC. Once the the RC is created the build server has no further role in NC deployments (except if a new RC is to be created).
The diagram below shows the deployment process with time running from top to bottom.
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The fully automated deployment processes includes:
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The provisioning and blueprint species specific configuration of an ubuntu Ubuntu 16.04 operating system on all nodes.
The deployment of all containerization, virtualization and associated Network Cloud specific software.
Summary
Build Server - a temporary VM or physical server initially used to deploy Regional Controllers.
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