Cisco Container Platform 7.0.0 Installation Guide

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Cisco Container Platform 7.0.0 Installation Guide

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Getting Cisco Container Platform Software

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Updated:
September 10, 2020

Chapter: Getting Cisco Container Platform Software

Getting Cisco Container Platform Software

This chapter contains the following topics:

Downloading the Software

Before you begin the installation, you need to download the required software assets.

Procedure

Step 1

Go to the Product Support Page of Cisco Container Platform.

Step 2

Under Support Documentation And Software, click Download Software.

The Software Download page appears displaying the latest release assets.
Step 3

Log in using your Cisco username and password that is associated with a valid service contract.
Step 4

Download the Installer and Tenant images.

Unpacking the Software

Procedure

Step 1

Browse to the directory where you have downloaded the software.

Step 2

Open the Shell command prompt and extract each tar.gz file.

Example
$ tar -zxvf kcp-vm-$VERSION.tar.gz
kcp-vm-$VERSION/
kcp-vm-$VERSION/ee.pem
kcp-vm-$VERSION/ccp_image_signing_release_v1_pubkey.der
kcp-vm-$VERSION/root_ca.pem
kcp-vm-$VERSION/kcp-vm-$VERSION.ova.signature
kcp-vm-$VERSION/kcp-vm-$VERSION.ova
kcp-vm-$VERSION/verify
kcp-vm-$VERSION/sub_ca.pem
kcp-vm-$VERSION/README
The .ova file contains the Cisco Container Platform image.

Verifying the Software

Before you begin

Ensure that your system has python 3.5.2 or later and OpenSSL installed.

Procedure

Step 1

Browse to the directory where you have unpacked the software.
Step 2

Open the Shell command prompt and run the script to verify the software.

Note 
You must run the verification steps for each release image.
Example
$ ./verify --type release --signature kcp-vm-$VERSION.ova.signature --image kcp-vm-$VERSION.ova
Verifying sha512 hash of ./root_ca.pem
Successfully verfied sha512 hash of ./root_ca.pem
Verifying sha512 hash of ./sub_ca.pem
Successfully verfied sha512 hash of ./sub_ca.pem
Verifying root(./root_ca.pem) and subca(./sub_ca.pem)
Successfully verified root and subca.
Verifying cert(./ee.pem) against root(./root_ca.pem) and subca(./sub_ca.pem)
Successfully verified end entity cert.
Extracting pubkey(kcp-vm-$VERSION/ee.pubkey) from ./ee.pem
Successfully extrated public key to kcp-vm-$VERSION/ee.pubkey.
Verifying signature(kcp-vm-$VERSION.ova.signature) of kcp-vm-$VERSION.ova using kcp-vm-$VERSION/ee.pubkey
Successfully verified signature.

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