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Minimum installation requirements are:
Install a VM with RHEL/CentOS 7 .9 or RHEL/Rocky Linux 8 (or the previous version) and a “Minimal Server” profile.
Run
yumto resolve dependencies for a package.RHEL/CentOS 7 or RHEL/Rocky Linux 8 server with Internet access and some disk space to pull the repo files.
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Swarm 15.x bundle includes podman offline repo. Refer to step 3 until step 7 of https://perifery.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/public/pages/2917138467/Online+SCS+Installation3042345098 to create a local repo for podman.
Note
Downloaded packages are not enough to install SCS server due to third-party external packages. Suggest query on each downloaded RPM packages to get the new list for additional download.
Contact DataCore Support if facing any issue and need assistance for manually creating a local repo.
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Create an Offline Pause Container
Install Podman on RHEL/CentOS 7 or RHEL/Rocky Linux 8.
Code Block yum -y install podman
Pull the Pause Container.
Create a new pod to automatically pull the registry.k8s.io/pause:3.2 image.
Code Block language bash podman pod create fc299d05422a55e46774aa06a66bc853109aeb4b1d7078f81f9ffa4eef26c8e0
List the pulled images.
Code Block language bash podman images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE registry.k8s.io/pause 3.2 80d28bedfe5d 22 months ago 688 kB
Note
Tag “registry“registry.k8s.io/pause”pause“ with 3.2 or higher.
Export Pause Container and save it for offline installation.
Code Block language bash podman save -o registry.k8s.io_pause_3.2.tar registry.k8s.io/pause:3.2 ll total 680 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 692224 Dec 7 20:10 registry.k8s.io_pause_3.2.tar
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