Appliance Installation

The appliance install will deploy self-hosted Palette and PaletteAI on the same cluster using bare metal or edge devices. The installation is broken into two parts:

1. Prepare Infrastructure

2. Deploy PaletteAI

After deployment, refer to the Upgrade PaletteAI guide for instructions on upgrading your appliance installation.

Hardware Requirements

You can deploy the PaletteAI appliance on a single node or a three-node cluster. We recommend deploying the PaletteAI appliance on a three-node cluster for production workloads.

Single node

• A single device that will act as a working control plane node, with the following resources:
  • 16 CPUs
  • 32 GB of RAM
  • Two disks: 350 GB and 500 GB

    • The first disk must be at least 350 GB and is used for the ISO stack. You specify the device in the TUI during the installation process.

    • The second disk must be at least 500 GB and is used for the storage pool.

      danger

      The second disk is wiped as part of the installation process. If using an existing disk, ensure that you back up any important data before proceeding.

Three-node

• Three devices that will act as working control plane nodes, each with the following resources:

  • 8 CPUs

  • 16 GB of RAM

  • Two disks: 350 GB and 500 GB

    • The first disk must be at least 350 GB and is used for the ISO stack. You specify the device in the TUI during the installation process.
    • The second disk must be at least 500 GB and is used for the storage pool.
    danger

    The second disk is wiped as part of the installation process. If using an existing disk, ensure that you back up any important data before proceeding.

• Network connectivity to the internet to download the required images. This requires network ports listed in Prepare Infrastructure, including the following:

  • TCP/443 - Must be open between all PaletteAI nodes and accessible for user connections to the PaletteAI management cluster.

  • TCP/6443 - Outbound traffic from the PaletteAI management cluster to the deployed cluster's Kubernetes API server.

• Relevant permissions to install PaletteAI on the nodes, including permission to attach or mount an ISO and set nodes to boot from it.

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The PaletteAI ISO installs the edge operating system and Local UI. It does not include pack content on the installation media. Download the Content Bundle for the same version from Artifact Studio and upload it in Local UI before you create a cluster: on the leader host for three-node deployments, or on your only appliance for single-node deployments. Refer to Upload the Content Bundle.

The PaletteAI ISO is built off of the Palette Management Appliance ISO lineage. For additional Palette platform options, refer to the official Palette documentation site.

Next Steps

Once you have the necessary hardware set up, you can begin preparing your infrastructure.