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Trial

To facilitate starting a trial of Digital Rebar Platform (DRP), a pre-built set of environments are available for initial discovery.

Hyper-V on Windows

On Windows 11 Pro system, Hyper-V can be used to instantiate a trial environment.

Requirements

  • Memory: 16GB Minimum (32GB Preferred)
  • Disk: 100GB free

Run the Trial

From a powershell window, you can run the following commands. Accept when the script asks for admin privileges.

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/get.rebar.digital/rackn-trial.ps1" -OutFile "rackn-trial.ps1"

.\rackn-trial.ps1

Warning

The script can take a while because the Virtual Machine image is about 6GB in size.

The first step downloads a powershell script. The second script runs the script. You should accept the warning.

The script will do the following things:

  • Make sure Hyper-V is installed and setup
  • If Hyper-V needs to be installed, the system will ask you to reboot for Hyper-V to be installed properly.
  • Rerun the script, c:\rackn-trial\rackn-trial.ps1, after the reboot
  • Download a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
  • Start the Virtual Machine
  • Start one or three test Virtual Machines depending upon memory
  • Launch a browser to the DRP UX

Once the browser page opens, accept the self-signed certificate, login with rocketskates/r0cketsk8ts, and fill out the RackN Trial license form. At this point, you can explore the trial enviornment and install Alma 9 upon the newly discovered machines.

Clean-up the Trial

To clean-up the environment, run the rackn-cleanup.ps1 script in the c:\rackn-trial directory.

This will stop and remove the Hyper-V instances, but leave the RackN DRP Virtual Machine and the rackn-trial.ps1 script.

AWS

From a linux or WSL or Darwin terminal with AWS credential configuration, a script can launch a set of EC2 instances that will allow you to explore the RackN DRP product.

Requirements

  • Bash shell with AWS cli installed
  • AWS credentials with EC2 access

Run the Trial

From the bash shell, run:

curl -fsSL https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/get.rebar.digital/aws-run-drp-trial.sh -o aws-run-drp-trial.sh
curl -fsSL https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/get.rebar.digital/aws-cleanup-drp-trial.sh -o aws-cleanup-drp-trial.sh
chmod +x aws*.sh
./aws-run-drp-trial.sh

The script will create a DRP instance in EC2 and start 3 EC2 instances that will PXE boot against the DRP instance.

Once the script finishes, it will print the URL to the DRP Endpoint. Open a browser to that URL. Once the browser page opens, accept the self-signed certificate, login with rocketskates/r0cketsk8ts, and fill out the RackN Trial license form. At this point, you can explore the trial enviornment and install Alma 9 upon the newly discovered machines.

Clean-up the Trial

To remove the EC2 instances, you can run the aws-cleanup-drp-trial.sh script.

Multiple Users In Same AWS Resources

The scripts take an optional parameter that will create resources with identifiers of ownership to allow for multiple users in the same domain.