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Installing Ortelius On-Premise

By Aditi Agarwal- Architecture Working Group | Thursday, March 18, 2021

Ortelius On-Prem Installation Tips

An Ortelius on-premise installing makes it easy to get started with your microservice management. You install Ortelius by pulling the Ortelius container from RedHat, performing some basic configurations and your ready to run Ortelius on-premise. These steps are all you need to complete the task.

Prerequisites

Ortelius runs in a Docker container with all the required dependencies included, such as Postgresql. Docker is the only prerequisite for your on premise installation of Ortelius. If you do not have Docker, below are steps for building a Docker environment.

Docker Installation

Setup RedHat VM in VirtualBox.
Setup yum and docker repo in VM.

Test Docker Installation

1. Start the Services

2. Check the Status

3.Run the Docker Commands

Installing the Ortelius Docker Image

The Ortelius Docker Image is found on the RedHat Quay Docker Registry. Follow the steps below to install Ortelius into your Docker installation.

1. Pull Ortelius from RedHat Quay Docker Registry

Wait until the image is being pulled and the above message doesn’t display. After completion, check the image pulled by issuing docker.

2. Create a Directory to Persist the Postgres Database

3. Find Your SHA

SHA is given in the third column,

e.g. - 789c2713c047

4. Start the Container for Linux and OS/X

Use the image SHA from Step 3 as the last parameter to the docker run.

5. Access Ortelius From Your Browser

Ortelius is accessible through the following URL:

http://<Ortelius DNS name>:7171/dmadminweb/Home

Your Ortelius DNS name is the server where you installed Ortelius.

To log in please use:

User Id: admin 
password: admin

Welcome to Ortelius!

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