Chapter 3. Installation

This guide provides instructions on how to install Tungsten Dashboard using either Docker Compose or Kubernetes.

The easiest way of configuring and installing Tungsten Dashboard is using the provided install.pl script. This script supports both Docker Compose and Kubernetes as deployment methods.

You can call the installer with an argument specifying the installation method (-d|-k), or select the method when prompted by the script.

Following the interactive installer steps and instructions below should be sufficient to completely set up Tungsten Dashboard in your environment.

Note

Both Tungsten Dashboard installation methods store information into a persistent volume. This data includes user details with hashed passwords, cluster details with encrypted usernames/passwords and configuration json. Stored data can be transferred and used in other Dashboard installations, provided that the DASHBOARD_SECRET environment variable has the same value between the instances.

The following sections cover this in more detail.

Before continuing, ensure that you have completed all of the Prerequisites, outlined in Chapter 2, Prerequisites