About Installing Plant Applications Web Client Using Docker

Before you begin

Ensure that you have completed all the pre-requisite software installation and configuration. For more information, refer to the pre-installation requirements.

Note:
  • Docker Web Client installation supports only the fully-qualified domain environment. Therefore, to avoid any potential issues, you must use the fully-qualified domain names for the remote server.
  • Ensure that during Operations Hub installation, you provide the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for primary host name.

Introduction

The installer for Plant Applications Web Client using Docker automates the following tasks that are required to install a fresh copy of Plant Applications Web Client version 8.1 or upgrade from Plant Applications Web Client version 8.0 SIM2 to version 8.1:
  • Transforming the raw .tar files related to the new features
  • Updating the Docker images
  • Pushing the Docker images to the local docker registry
  • Pulling the Docker images on to the Web Client server node
  • Updating the Docker stack

This Ansible-based installer is a Client Line Interface (CLI) driven tool. You must enter the configuration details when prompted. Based on the input, the corresponding Linux shell scripts or Ansible playbooks are triggered to complete the tasks involved in the installation.

The installer can either install Plant Applications Web Client on a Linux server with Docker installed or perform an upgrade from Plant Applications Web Client version 8.0 to version 8.1. In both the cases, the CLI-based navigation remains the same.