Guide
Quickstart: your first cluster
Assumes zero Ansible experience. Starts at "three servers and a laptop" and ends with a validated cluster.
Guides
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Deploy a vPAC cluster (ansible-vpac)
Guide
Connected or air-gapped? The one-minute picker
Choose between an internet-connected install and a fully offline one.
Guide
Air-gapped deployment
For sites with no internet, which is most substations.
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Connected deployment
For labs and sites that can reach the internet.
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What gets deployed, and why
Every layer of the cluster and the reason it's there.
Guide
Upgrading the cluster's Ceph storage (RHCS 7 to 9)
An in-place upgrade of the storage layer to a new major release.
Single node, by hand
Guide
Single-node manual (13 steps)
A real-time host running a vendor's virtual protection relay, built step by step without Ansible: install, networking, virtualization, PTP, real-time tuning, validation, troubleshooting.
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The single-node host as an image mode (bootc) image
The same host as a RHEL image mode container image: an update is one atomic bootc upgrade, with rollback.
Architecture (virtual-protection)
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The pattern: what and why
Start here if you're evaluating the platform: the two topologies and the reasoning behind each major choice.
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Reference architecture
Glossary, industry standards, deployment specification and the detail behind every layer.