Prerequisites

GCP GKE has prerequisites to meet before you can install the EDB Postgres AI Software Deployment. Fulfill the prerequisites to ensure that you have everything you need before you start the installation process.

Prerequisites

• :ref;`A system from which you can run the installation process <Install system>`

• A GCP account with the necessary permissions

• :ref;`A GCP cluster configured to host HM <Creating or configuring a GKE cluster for Hybrid Manager>`

• :ref;`Sync container images to your registry <Sync container images to your registry>`

Next steps

After you complete the prerequisites, you can move on to Installation phase of Hybrid Manager on Rancher RKE2 .

• Install system
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Windows
    • Installing Helm
  • Next steps
• Creating or configuring a GKE cluster for Hybrid Manager
  • GKE cluster
    • Permissions
    • Different node types
    • Hybrid Manager nodes
    • PostgreSQL workload nodes
    • Configure object storage
    • Create a GCP bucket
    • Create a bucket user
    • Create a secret for bucket access
    • Create a AES-256 Key
    • Sync container images
    • Create the namespaces required for HM and necessary secrets
    • Griptape secret
    • Catalog secret
• Set the necessary environmental variables for install
  • Set domain variables
  • Set storage class variable
  • Set authentication variables
  • Optional: set FIPs mode Transporter Data Operator