The following prerequisites are common across both deployment methods (docker-compose and helm):
A staging/admin host for download and unpacking the various tools and for holding the Tungsten Dashboard installation packages. There are no specific OS version requirements, other than the host must be a Linux family host or VM.
If deploying Dashboard using docker-compose, then the staging host can also be used as the host for installation.
Access to download the latest Tungsten Dashboard packages is via the Continuent Download Portal. If you do not have access, please contact Continuent Support.
Tungsten Clusters that are running v8.0.0 (or later).
Tungsten Dashboard v8 will NOT connect to Tungsten Clusters running older versions
If you are using an older release and are unable to upgrade at this time, you will need to follow the installation steps in the Tungsten Dashboard v1 Documentation.
A configured directory for storing downloaded Tungsten images. Further
examples in this documentation use /opt/continuent/software
as this location and aligns with the recommended default for all
Tungsten software staging locations.
A non-root OS user, we recommend configuring an OS user called tungsten
OPTIONAL: openssl - used for fetching certificates
OPTIONAL: keytool - used for generating jks files, included with Java