Installing service-specific software on remote physical locations

After you add a remote physical location to a data plane, users can create service instances to run workloads on the remote physical location. You must install service-specific software to enable users to provision services instances on the remote physical location.

Who needs to complete this task?

Cluster administrator A cluster administrator must complete this task.

When do you need to complete this task?

Repeat as needed You must complete this task for each physical location where you want to provision service instances.

Before you begin

Best practice: You can run the commands in this task exactly as written if you use set up environment variables for the remote physical location in addition to the installation environment variables script. For instructions, see Setting up environment variables for a remote physical location.
Before you run the commands in this task, ensure that you source the environment variables for:
  • The primary cluster
  • The remote physical location

About this task

You can create service instances on remote physical locations for the following services:

  • Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
    Restriction: If you want to create Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark instances on remote physical locations, you cannot use job interface in Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark. You must set sparkAdvEnabled to false. For more information about this setting, see Specifying additional configurations for Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark.
  • DataStage
  • Orchestration Pipelines

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Procedure

Complete the appropriate tasks based on the services that you want to install on the remote physical location: