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Administration Guides

Welcome to the VOR Stream Administration Guides. These guides aim to provide administrators the background on the architecture, deployment, and administration of the VOR Stream platform.

Background

Ansible is used to deploy the software that enable the operation of VOR Stream. The software needed for the deployment and files used by Ansible have been put together into an installation package. The Ansible Inventory file allows for the customization of the location of software deployment, whether on a single machine or multiple machines.

The ansible-playbook command is used to deploy and configure VOR Stream software in a consistent manner. Successful installation of VOR Stream needs to be validated and post-deployment steps should be followed.

Requirements

Prior to deploying, administrators should ensure that:

  • they have a basic understanding of Ansible and Linux operating systems.
  • they have reviewed the VOR Stream Reference Architecture and deployment scenarios
  • the correct version of Ansible (2.11 or later) is installed on the administrator's machine.
  • the system requirements for the target hosts have been met.
  • networking rules between hosts allow for the traffic flows described in Ports and Networking Reference.
  • that the required permissions to execute commands have been acquired or set up.
  • site-specific customizations to the Ansible inventory file have been made.

After all requirements have been met, the administrator can proceed with Ansible playbook execution.