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For CloudBlue Commerce version 21, a VM is required to run python scripts that use poaupdater and have access to OSS and BSS DB credentials in the format that poaupdater understands. That is, in the same format that was used on the OA MN before upgrading to version 21.

To create this environment, complete the following steps:

1. In the VM, create the /etc/yum.repos.d/pa-central.repo file with the following content:

   [pa-central-repo]
   name=PA Central YUM repo for RHEL $releasever
   baseurl=https://download.automation.odin.com/cb/20.5/repo/RHEL/$releasever/
   gpgcheck=0

2. Create the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo file with the following content:

   [epel]
   name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
   #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/$basearch
   mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=$basearch
   failovermethod=priority
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=1
   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7

3. Install poaupdater:

   yum install https://download.platform.cloudblue.com/cb/support/poaupdater-21.3.0-10/poaupdater-21.3.0-10.noarch.rpm

4. Install additional packages:

   yum install python-configparser postgresql11-contrib postgresql11-libs postgresql11-server postgresql11 --nogpgcheck

5. If you use AKS, install Azure CLI 2.0 as described at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-yum?view=azure-cli-latest

6. If you use AKS, connect Azure AKS using instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/aks?view=azure-cli-latest#az-aks-get-credentials

7. Install kubectl.

   • For AKS, use these instructions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/aks?view=azure-cli-latest#az-aks-install-cli

   • For an on-premises environment, create the /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo file with the following content:

     [kubernetes]
     name=Kubernetes
     baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/kubernetes-el7-x86_64
     enabled=1
     gpgcheck=1
     repo_gpgcheck=0
     gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg

     and install kubectl using yum.

8. If you use an on-premises Kubernetes cluster, copy the admin configuration file to ~/.kube/config:

   mkdir /root/~.kube 
   copy /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf from kubernetes master node to /root/~.kube/config
   chmod 600 /root/~.kube/config

9. Install Help from https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v3.5.4

10. Set up poaupdater configuration files using the generate_configs.py script, as follows:

    python generate_configs.py --namespace <NAMESPACE>

    Where <NAMESPACE> is the Kubernetes namespace where the CNC stack is located.

    This script generates configuration files with DB and OpenAPI credentials that poaupdaer uses:

    • /usr/local/pem/etc/Kernel.conf
    • /usr/local/pem/etc/pleskd.props
    • /usr/local/pem/etc/odbc.ini

11. Also, it generates the /usr/local/pem/APS/certificates/poa.pem certificate for APS BUS.