The Agent-based installation method provides the flexibility to boot your on-premise servers in any way that you choose. It combines the ease of use of the Assisted Installation service with the ability to run offline, including in air-gapped environments. Agent-based installation is a subcommand of the {product-title} installer. It generates a bootable ISO image containing all of the information required to deploy an {product-title} cluster, with an available release image.
The configuration is in the same format as for the installer-provisioned infrastructure and user-provisioned infrastructure installation methods. The Agent-based Installer can also optionally generate or accept Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) custom resources. ZTP allows you to provision new edge sites with declarative configurations of bare-metal equipment.
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This section describes the requirements for an Agent-based {product-title} installation that is configured to use the platform none option.
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Review the information in the guidelines for deploying {product-title} on non-tested platforms before you attempt to install an {product-title} cluster in virtualized or cloud environments. |