Deploy Additional Packages

Deploy Additional Packages During First Time Deployment

To deploy additional software packages and container images on cluster nodes, do the following:

1. To download and deploy additional software packages and container images using Omnia local repositories, see Add Additional Packages.

2. After the local repositories are created, build the cluster node images and PXE boot the nodes using the images:

• Build images: Step 12: Build Cluster Node Images

• Discover nodes and PXE boot: Step 13: Discover cluster nodes

Deploy Additional Packages After Cluster Provisioning

To deploy additional packages/images after cluster provisioning, do the following:

1. To download and deploy additional software packages and container images using Omnia local repositories, see Add Additional Packages.

2. Re-run the local_repo_.yml playbook to download the new packages/images to the Pulp container.

3. After the local repositories are updated, do the following:

   • To install the RPM packages on the required nodes, manually run the following command on each node:

     dnf install <package-name>
     

   • To pull the container images on the required nodes, manually run the following command on each node:

     Using tag: crictl pull <image_name>:<tag>
     
     Using digest: crictl pull <image_name>@<digest>
     

   • To verify the installed packages/images, run the following command on each node:

     dnf list installed <package-name>
     
     crictl images
     

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