Artifacts

What is an Artifact?

An artifact is simply a smaller component or informational property of a larger object, resource or service that acts in a manner to produce or determine an intended output. It can also be defined as the logic that defines what elements of a deployment have to be installed and how. These informational pieces are created to be used for the deployment and operation of a system.

Airctl and Helpers

The following artifacts are used to aid in the implementation and configuration of the different airctl elements.

• airctl-<version>.tar.gz: This compressed file contains the airctl binary. This is the primary CLI tool used for management of the Platform9 Edge DU
• airctl-scripts-<version>.tar.gz: This compact file contains all the associated scripts used by airctl
• pf9-deploy-<version>.tar: This is a helper container that creates the configuration file for the Platform9 management plane
• du-<version>.tar.gz: The compressed DU file includes the CentOS 7.x VM image, along with the required binaries. This VM is configured through the pf9-deploy and ansible-stack commands
• ansible-<version>.tar.gz: This file contains the ansible stack utilized by the pf9-deploy command above

Offline Packages

The following artifacts are primarily employed for offline (or air-gapged) edge stack installations.

• hostagent-<version>.tar.gz: This file contains the yum repo information for the platform9 agents running on the hosts. Platform9 can automatically deploy this, or it can be added using foreman
• docker-<version>.tar.gz: Similar to the file above, it can be either installed using Platform9 airctl or using foreman
• docker-imgs-<version>.tar.gz: This file contains all the docker images that Platform9 initially requires. Airctl can add it to the cache of every host.
• pf9-kube-<version>.tar.gz: This file contains the packages needed for a Kubernetes multi-version implementation

Installed File Locations

Once setup, all the installed files are located under the /opt/pf9/airctl directory.

ls -alh /opt/pf9/airctl

drwxr-xr-x.  8 root root  203 Sep  9 17:05 .

drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root   20 Sep  9 17:04 ..

-rwxr-xr-x.  1  350  350  18M Sep  8 22:33 airctl

drwxr-xr-x. 12  350  350 4.0K Sep  9 17:22 ansible-stack

drwxr-xr-x.  2  350  350  113 Sep  9 17:23 conf

drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   47 Sep  9 17:04 deploy

-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 107M Sep  9 17:05 docker-v-5.3.0-1675863.tar.gz

-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  11G Sep 13 23:21 du.qcow2

-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  17M Sep  9 17:05 hostagent-v-5.3.0-1675863.tar.gz

drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   80 Sep  9 17:04 imgs

drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   29 Sep  9 17:04 pf9-kube

drwxr-xr-x.  3  350  350  220 Sep  9 17:07 scripts