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Version: 0.1 (unreleased)

Installation overview

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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.