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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.
draw.io Diagram
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 digram below shows the deployment process with time running from top to bottom.
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The fully automated deployment processes includes:
- The bare metal provisioning of the RC and Rover/Unicycle pods' BIOS via the servers' BMC using the Redfish API
- The provisioning and blueprint species specific configuration of an ubuntu operating system on all nodes
- The deployment of all containerization, virtualization and associated
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The diagram below shows the chronology of NC deployments.
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- Network Cloud specific software
Summary
Build Server - a temporary VM or physical server initially used to deploy Regional Controllers.
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