Automation Host Prerequisites

• Automation Host Prerequisites
• Configure Your Firewall
• Automation Host Setup
  • Terraform
  • PowerVS CLI
  • Git

Configure Your Firewall

If your automation host is behind a firewall, you will need to ensure the following ports are open in order to use ssh, http, and https: - 22, 443, 80

These additional ports are required for the ocp cli (oc) post-install: - 6443

Automation Host Setup

Install the following packages on the automation host. Select the appropriate install binaries based on your automation host platform - Mac/Linux/Windows.

Terraform

Terraform: Please open the link for downloading the latest Terraform. For validating the version run terraform version command after install. Terraform version 1.2.0 and above is required.

Install Terraform and providers for Power environment: 1. Download and install the latest Terraform binary for Linux/ppc64le from https://github.com/ppc64le-development/terraform-ppc64le/releases. 2. Download the required Terraform providers for Power into your TF project directory:

$ cd <path_to_TF_project>
$ mkdir -p ./providers
$ curl -fsSL https://github.com/ocp-power-automation/terraform-providers-power/releases/download/v0.11/archive.zip -o archive.zip
$ unzip -o ./archive.zip -d ./providers
$ rm -f ./archive.zip

1. Initialize Terraform at your TF project directory:

$ terraform init --plugin-dir ./providers

PowerVS CLI

PowerVS CLI: Please download and install the CLI by referring to the following instructions. Alternatively, you can use IBM Cloud shell directly from the browser itself.

Git

Git: Please refer to the link for instructions on installing Git.