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Cloud UX | Octopus | Installation Guide

This chapter covers the installation of the Octopus feature pack, however the installation requires the Traco ACS feature pack and the Traco ACS Database to be installed as well.

1. Upload the Octopus feature pack to your Cloud UX primary master node or single server.
   On Windows you can use WinSCP while on Linux you can use the scp command in terminal.
2. Connect via ssh into your Cloud UX primary master node or single server where you uploaded the Octopus feature pack.

3. Import the Octopus feature-pack.

   Cloud UX v2023.3 or newer
   avidctl featurepack import <path-to-feature-pack>/traco-octopus.zip

   Cloud UX v2022.12.x or older
   avidctl feature-pack import <path-to-feature-pack>/traco-octopus.zip

4. For MediaCentral | Cloud UX earlier than v2018.11 you must upgrade the helm repo manually.

   helm repo update

5. Install the feature pack.

   Cloud UX v2023.3 or newer
   avidctl featurepack install --feature avid-releases/traco-octopus --name traco-octopus --version=<version>

   Cloud UX v2022.12.x or older
   avidctl feature install --feature avid-releases/traco-octopus --name traco-octopus --version=<version>

   Note: If this is your first installation of the Octopus feature pack, the application in the user interface will appear within 1-20 minutes.

   Note: The exact version number of the feature pack can be identified from the output of the import command (step 3 of this chapter).

6. If you are reinstalling or upgrading the Octopus feature pack, it is necessary to delete the old octopus pod from kubernetes if it was not deleted automatically after the Octopus feature pack installation. For more info about deleting pods please refer to MediaCentral | Cloud UX documentation.