Part 1: Setup

What Will You Do

This is Part 1 of a multi-part, self-paced quick start exercise. In this part, you will perform a few "one-time" tasks. Declarative specifications are provided for the exercise so that you can get started with just a few commands.

Important

If you want to follow the Web Console/UI based approach for this exercise, you can skip this part and proceed to Step 2

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Step 1: Download RCTL

The RCTL CLI allows you to programmatically interact with the controller enabling users to construct sophisticated automation workflows.

• Login into your Org
• Navigate to "My Tools" to download both the RCTL CLI and the "CLI Config" file
• Initialize RCTL using the step-by-step instructions
• Ensure you update your OS's Path environment variable for RCTL

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Step 2: Clone Git Repo

Declarative specs for this excercise are available in a Git repository

• Clone the Git repository to your laptop using the command below.

git clone https://github.com/RafaySystems/getstarted.git

• Once complete, you should see a folder called "opa_gatekeeper" which contains the declarative specs needed for this excercise.

drwxr-xr-x   4 matreya  staff  128 Apr  3 07:44 blueprint
drwxr-xr-x   6 matreya  staff  192 Apr  3 07:44 constraint_templates
drwxr-xr-x   6 matreya  staff  192 Apr  3 07:44 constraints
drwxr-xr-x   3 matreya  staff   96 Apr  3 07:44 policy
drwxr-xr-x   4 matreya  staff  128 Apr  3 07:44 workload

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Recap

At this point, you have everything setup and configured to start the exercise.

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