Introduction¶
The deployment of Spinal Stack is done by 3 steps:
- bootstrap: manage lifecycle of servers (hardware + Operating System + packages)
- configuration: configure all services to make Spinal Stack working
- sanity: ensure Spinal Stack is deployed and working as expected by running advanced functionnal testing
Requirements¶
Before running a deployment, there are some requirements to understand the way Spinal Stack works do be deployed.
| step | project(s) | external documentation |
|---|---|---|
| bootstrap | eDeploy, PXEmgr | eDeploy, PXEmngr |
| configuration, upgrade | config-tools, Puppet, Hiera, Ansible | Puppet, Hiera, Ansible |
| sanity | Tempest | Tempest |
The minimal requirements to install Spinal Stack are:
| Deployment type | Number of Servers | Operating Systems |
|---|---|---|
| PoC, dev | 4 | RHEL 7.0 |
| Production | > 10 | RHEL 7.0 |
Note
Spinal Stack can be installed on bare-metal server or in a virtualized environment.