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Getting SmoothGlue

This document is intended to provide the System Integrator a brief summary of the different artifacts SmoothGlue provides and where to get them.

SmoothGlue Run Basic​

SmoothGlue Run Basic is a freely-available AMI on the AWS Marketplace that provides a way for users to easily deploy a single-node SmoothGlue Run cluster on a single EC2 instance. SmoothGlue Run Basic is a great way to evaluate a subset of SmoothGlue's features.

SmoothGlue Enterprise​

For licensed users, SmoothGlue Enterprise provides installation artifacts and AMIs, which are distributed via shared AWS S3 buckets and shared AMI images. As part of the account provisioning process, our support team will need the following information:

  • The account number of your AWS account, and
  • Whether the account is in commercial AWS or AWS GovCloud, so that we can share the appropriate S3 buckets and AMIs for your account's partition.

Installation Artifacts​

SmoothGlue Enterprise provides several installation artifacts to address the needs of various installation steps. For each version of SmoothGlue Enterprise, the following artifacts should be avilable:

  • terraform_bundle
    • This is the SmoothGlue IaC package responsible for creating infrastructure in AWS.
    • See Deploying SmoothGlue IaC for how to use this artifact.
  • zarf-package-smoothglue
    • This is the SmoothGlue Zarf air-gap package responsible for installing and configuring applications in Kubernetes.
    • See Deploying SmoothGlue Package for how to use this artifact.
  • zarf-package-smoothglue SBOM
    • This is a Software Bill of Materials for the applications in the SmoothGlue Zarf package.
  • checksum-manifest
    • This contains checksums of the above items for ensuring data integrity.

Each new version of SmoothGlue Enterprise will publish a set of these artifacts in our release S3 bucket, so for example, artifacts for version v6.10.0 will be stored under the following path for commercial AWS:

s3://structsure-releases/v6.10.0/

For GovCloud AWS accounts, the artifacts will instead be available from:

s3://structsure-releases-gov/v6.10.0/

AMIs​

SmoothGlue Enterprise provides STIG'd AMIs that can be deployed in AWS for our supported Kubernetes distributions. Our currently supported Kubernetes distributions:

note

When using the SmoothGlue IaC, only use the AMI appropriate for your Kubernetes distribution.