Deployment overview

BMC provides deployment artifacts like the Deployment Manager and the container images. You must download the Deployment Manager and the token to access container images from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution (EPD) site. The container images are hosted on BMC Docker Trusted Registry (DTR), available at http://containers.bmc.com/. You can only access the containers for which you are licensed. Use the token in the container-token.bmc file that you downloaded from EPD to access the container images. 

As a system administrator, use the deployment artifacts to deploy BMC Helix Edge in your on-premises environment. 

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Deploying

Benefits of container deployment

  • Reduces the cost of deployment and management.
  • Consumes fewer resources, and containers are lightweight.
  • Improves security by isolating applications from the host and other applications.
  • Provides better efficiency than virtual machines with fast start-up and better performance.

BMC has developed a Health Check Tool that you can use to ease the deployment process. For more information, see BMC Helix on-premises installation health check tool image-2024-2-19_17-39-23.png.

Product roles and permissions

BMC Helix Edge deployment aims at simplifying the on-premises deployment process performed by the roles described in the following image:

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Deployment of BMC Helix Edge

The Deployment Manager installs multiple applications with the services and the data lake required to run the applications. You must use the following scripts located at helix-on-prem-deployment-manager/config/ to specify the necessary parameters for the deployment of BMC Helix Edge:

  • infra.config: Use this configuration file to determine the infrastructure details.
  • deployment.config: Based on your business requirements and license entitlement, use this configuration file to determine the applications you want to install.

 

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