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Installation and Administration Guide

Deploy the Data Plane Artifacts

This section is an overview of data plane deployment. There are slight differences in how this happens, depending on the deployment environment. For example, on premises or on a cloud such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Installation is the same for all cloud environments except for one step in which you create a volume with a JDBC driver. You deploy a data plane as a system administrator at the command line.

Once you have registered a new data plane in the control plane, you must deploy the data plane configuration to your Kubernetes cluster.

In the dpp-data-plane-[version] folder extracted from the release bundle tarball, edit the data-plane-values.yaml configuration file. Specify the following values:

  • Set clean to false.

  • Set externalHostnameto the hostname you configured for the data proxy in the control plane.

  • Set controlPlanehostName to the full hostname of the control plane you deployed previously.

  • Set controlPlane → dataAgentId to the dataPlaneId in the data agent configuration file you downloaded from the control plane.

  • Set controlPlaneexchangeId to the exchangeId in the data agent configuration file you downloaded from the control plane.

  • Set controlPlanecertificateFile to the full path to the control plane public certificate you downloaded when creating the public key infrastructure.

  • Set imagesload to true.

  • Set imagespush to true.

  • Set imagestargetRegistry to your container registry path. This setting will depend on the various flavours of Kubernetes (and cloud providers).

  • Set dataPlaneConfigClaimname to the name of the PersistentVolumeClaim you configured as part of the prerequisites.

  • Set clientAuthdataAgentPrivateKeyFile to the full path of the private key for the data agent you created in the data plane.

  • Set clientAuthdynamicProxyPrivateKeyFile to the full path of the private key for the data proxy you created in the data plane.

Once this configuration is complete, you can deploy the components:

./dppctl install -f ./data-plane-values.yaml

Once deployed, you must configure the Kubernetes gateway to allow communication with your data agent. This is simply a guide to how that command will look:

kubectl patch gateway data-plane-gateway -n [data plane namespace] --type=merge -p "{\"spec\":{\"selector\":{\"istio\":\"istio-ingress-[data plane namespace]\"}}}"