Provisioning

This page describes various methods to provision a device with a PSEC-based system.

Manual

Manual provisioning consists of going through an installation process step-by-step using a USB drive.

1 - Create an installation USB stick for Alpine Linux.

• The Alpine Linux version must match the desired repository version.
• The ISO image used must be Alpine Standard.

2 - Install Alpine Linux on the device.

• Assign a network interface with either DHCP or a static IP depending on the context.
• In the APK Mirror section, if using an internet repository, select f, otherwise do not select any menu entry but manually enter the URL of the local Alpine main repository.
• Create an admin user account.

3 - Reboot the system at the end of the installation.

4 - After reboot, log in as admin.

5 - Add binary repositories

• Type $ su - root and enter the password defined during the installation.
• Run # vi /etc/apk/repositories and add the community repository, the PSEC repository, and any product-specific repositories.
• Save and exit with :wq.
• Run # apk update

6 - Add PGP keys

• Run # cd /etc/apk/keys then # wget [PSEC repository URL]/psec.rsa.pub, and repeat the process for other product-specific repositories.
• Run # apk update.

7 - (Optional, only in development phase) Allow the admin user to execute root commands

• Run # apk add sudo, then # visudo
• Edit the line # %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL and remove the # to uncomment it.
• Save and exit with :wq
• Type # exit

8 - Install XEN

• Run $ sudo apk add xen xen-hypervisor
• Run $ sudo reboot
• On reboot, select the first GRUB entry labeled with Xen
• After booting, log in as root
• Start the Xen service with # rc-service xenstored start

9 - Install the product following the provided documentation.