Installing the United Manufacturing Hub on a VM (for IT department)

What is the United Manufacturing Hub?

It is a Helm Chart for Kubernetes and we typically deploy it using the operating system k3OS on an on-premise server / VM. More information can be found in our documentation:

https://learn.umh.app/docs/

k3OS is a minimal operating system designed to host lightweight Kubernetes clusters using k3s.

Instructions

The full installation guide can be found here https://learn.umh.app/guides/umh/installation/tutorial/installation-guide-basic/

In short:

1. Create new VM (4 CPUS, 16 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD should always work.)
2. download the latest version of k3OS and mount it in your VM (https://github.com/rancher/k3os/releases/tag/v0.21.5-k3s2r1)
3. Boot up the LiveCD and ensure that you have internet connectivity. If DHCP is not allowed in your datacenter, you need to set the IP manually:

Using static IPs in k3OS

1. Install and when asked for a cloud-init, use the one provided by us or, if using a test setup, using https://www.umh.app/development.yaml
2. That’s it (default username / password is rancher / rancher). For production setups this needs to be changed.