How to install RAAS manually on RHEL 8.8/8.9

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)
• VMware SaltStack

Issue/Introduction

Procedure to install RAAS service manually. 

Environment

Aria Automation Config 8.17

RHEL 8.8

RHEL 8.9

Resolution

Before RAAS can be installed, The dependency's will need to be sorted out. 

• Install the latest JDK/open-jdk using the below command
  

  dnf install <latest-OpenJDK-package>

To Download OpenJDK package access https://openjdk.org/install/

• Install singleton-manager-i18n (copy salt/sse/eapi_service/files/singleton-manager-i18n-0.6.15-0.el7.x86_64.rpm to raas machine, this file can be found in the SSE installer)
  

  rpm -i singleton-manager-i18n-0.6.15-0.el7.x86_64.rpm

• Install RAAS (copy salt/sse/eapi_service/files/raas-8.17.0.6.el8.x86_64.rpm to raas machine, 
  

  rpm -i raas-8.17.0.6.el8.x86_64.rpm

• Create raas configuration files:
  

  su - raas -c "raas genconfig  /etc/raas/raas"

• Generate certificates
  

  openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -sha256 -days 3650 -nodes -keyout /etc/pki/raas/certs/sse.key -out /etc/pki/raas/certs/sse.crt

• Fix permissions 
  

  chown raas:raas /etc/pki/raas/certs/sse*

• edit /etc/raas/raas, fill the DB server, redis server details:, add missing data
  

  #psql:
  sql:
    dialect: postgresql
    host: pgsql.domain.tld
    port: 5432
    driver: psycopg2
    ssl: false
  
  #redis
  redis:
    url: redis://redis.domain.tld:6379
  
  #TLS for webUI
  tls_minimum: 1.2
  tls_crt: /etc/pki/raas/certs/sse.crt
  tls_key: /etc/pki/raas/certs/sse.key
  
  #define port:
  port: 443

• Save psql and redis creds
  one of the below

  • su - raas -c "raas save_creds"

  • or

  • su raas
    /usr/bin/raas save_creds 'postgres={"username":"psql_user","password":"psql_passwd"}' 'redis={"password":"redis_passwd"}'"

• start RAAS service
  

  systemctl start raas