Operator section overview

Welcome to the Operator section of the GET documentation.

These pages should be everything you need to:

• Set up a new cluster environment
• Customizing your environment according to the customers' requirements
• Migrate a customers' existing data to your new environment
• And performing periodic maintenance on the environment afterwards.

Dependencies

Before you continue, ensure you have all the tooling you need installed on your system.

• Install Python3 and the relevant virtualenv packages. Usually this is covered by python3 python3-dev python3-venv.
• Install AWS tooling. Usually this is covered by awscli.
• Install the AWS Session Manager plugin.
• Install Terraform as per the upstream documentation.
• Install our helper scripts from GET RECT. Follow these sections:
  • Installation of GET RECT.
  • Integration with AWS SSO
• Install Copier to render out project templates.
• Ansible will be installed inside your virtualenv, so you don't need to install this globally.