EDA Deployment

The EDA deployment consist of Configuration Manger Tango Device, Event Subscriber Tango Device,Archwizard, Archviewer and EDA configurator tool.

The Deployment requires TimescaleDB credentials to connect with and some variables for other tools in deployment.

Below table shows mandatory values required by EDA chart while deployment.

These values are present in charts/ska-tango-archiver/values.yaml or can be added in values.yaml.

Values Required

Key	description	type	default
hostname	IP address or DNS of timescaleDB server.	str	None
dbname	Database name for archiving.Will be created if does not exists.	str	default_archiver_db
dbuser	Database user name	str	None
port	Port of timescaleDB server.	int	None
dbpassword	Password of user specified.	str	None
telescope	This variable helps to specify deployment type Low/Mid.	str	SKA-mid
telescope_environment	This variable is used by EDA Configurator tool to display environment in which tool is deployed.	str	MID-STFC
archwizard_config	This variable is required by archwizard tool for administration purpose.	str	“MyHDB=tango://tango-databaseds.ska-tango-archiver.svc.cluster.local:10000/mid-eda/cm/01”

• To deploy the archiver enter following command:

make k8s-install-chart

or can directly provide values to make command as shown below

make k8s-install-chart TELESCOPE=<SKA-low/mid>
ARCHIVER_DBNAME=<dbname>
ARCHIVER_TIMESCALE_HOST_NAME=<hostname>
ARCHIVER_TIMESCALE_PORT=<port>
ARCHIVER_TIMESCALE_DB_USER=<dbuser>
ARCHIVER_TIMESCALE_DB_PWD=<dbpassword>
TELESCOPE_ENVIRONMENT=<environment name>
ARCHWIZARD_CONFIG=<full FQDN of configuration Manager>

• The archiver gets deployed in namespace ska-tango-archiver

• On gitlab ci-cd Masked Environment variables are created ARCHIVER_TIMESCALE_DB_PWD , ARCHIVER_TIMESCALE_DB_USER , ARCHIVER_TIMESCALE_HOST_NAME, ARCHIVER_TIMESCALE_PORT which contains archiver database connection details.

• To delete the deployment enter following command:

make k8s-uninstall-chart