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The Regatta Deployment Tool (RDT) helps you automate the process of setting up a RegattaDB cluster.

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Prerequisites & Dependencies

The RDT will require the following packages on the deployment server (where the RDT is executed): Linux packages:
  • sshpass
  • jq
Python requirements:
  • python3 - version 3.6.8 or above
  • ansible
These dependencies can be pre-installed manually by the user or left to be installed automatically by the RDT.
Please note that installing the script dependencies requires an internet connection or having the packages readily available on the server.

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SSH

The RDT utilizes SSH to access all the cluster nodes from the host it is executed on. The SSH connection requires a user with sudo permissions to be present on all the cluster nodes. For this document, we will refer to that user as the deployment_user.
The sudo permission for the deployment user is required for installing the Regatta RPM packages, configuring the required firewall ports, and ensuring proper storage devices permissions for the regatta system-user used by the Regatta modules.

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Download

The RDT can be downloaded from a link provided by Regatta Support. The download will include a tar archive containing:
  1. The Regatta RPM packages for installing Regatta modules and tools
  2. A directory containing the RDT and all its components
Downloading the Regatta tar archive can be done directly on one of the cluster nodes (using wget or a similar tool) or on an external host and then copied to one of the cluster nodes. Extract the archive: 
tar -zxf Regatta-X.X.X.X.tar.gz
After extracting the archive, a directory named Regatta-deploy will be created in the location where the tar command was executed.