Installation overview

Ballast has two components you install separately:

1. The centre, one instance, holding desired state in PostgreSQL and serving it over gRPC (to agents) and REST (to the UI). Install this first.
2. The agent, one per Hyper-V host, installed as a Windows service. Each agent registers with the centre, reports its inventory, and begins reconciling whatever desired state it is assigned.

Install order:

1. Install the centre.
2. Install the agent on each host you want Ballast to manage.
3. Continue to Your First Cluster to bring a host under management and, optionally, join it to a cluster.