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Creating a Deployment Environment

In order to deploy ORCA into an NGAP environment with Cumulus, a deployment environment needs be created. The sections below describe the tool chain needed and any additional environmental setup that should occur. The setup for deploying ORCA is similar to the Cumulus deployment requirements. The sections below assume that the end user is using a Linux or MacOS environment.

Deployment Tool Requirements​

The following tools should be installed to perform an ORCA deployment.

Deployment Environment Setup​

Setting up the development environment consists of installing the proper Terraform version using Terraform Version Manager and creating the AWS profiles for connecting to the proper NGAP OU for your application.

Installing Terraform​

Using Terraform Version Manager install the latest supported version of terraform using the command below.

tfenv install 1.5.5

Configure AWS CLI Profiles​

Configure the AWS CLI with two profiles. The first profile should be the default and the access information should be for the Cumulus OU. The second profile should be have access information for the Disaster Recovery OU.

Use the Cloud Tamer application to create long term access keys to both the Cumulus and Recovery OU environments.

UI for generating long term access keys

Using the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key values configure the different profiles as seen below.

Creating the Default Profile.

aws configure --profile default

AWS Access Key ID []: Your AWS Access Key ID Value for Cumulus OU
AWS Secret Access Key []: Your AWS Secret Access Key Value for Cumulus OU
Default region name []: us-west-2
Default output format []: json

Creating the Disaster Recovery Profile

aws configure --profile drou-sandbox

AWS Access Key ID []: Your AWS Access Key ID Value for Disaster Recovery OU
AWS Secret Access Key []: Your AWS Secret Access Key Value for Disaster Recovery OU
Default region name []: us-west-2
Default output format []: json