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This wiki describes the specifications for designing the Binary Provisioning Agent Custom resource Definition required for the Integrated Cloud Native Akraino project iteratively.

Iterations

This task will evolve over time and we will keep iterating and modifying this document. Iterations are small steps that will happen within a short period of time with specific tasks to roll out POCs as quickly as possible for feedback inorder to adjust the focus quickly.. 

Overview of BPA

The BPA is part of the infra local controller which runs as a bootstrap k8s cluster in the ICN project. As described in Integrated Cloud Native Akraino project, the purpose of the BPA is to install packages that cannot be installed using kubectl. It will be called once the operating system (Linux) has been installed in the compute nodes by the baremetal operator. The Binary Provisioning Agent will carry out the following functions;

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