IMS on Linux?

The middle tier infrastructure installer main.ps1 is only available on windows.
The management server is only required during upgrades of the middle tier server (microk8s).
Perhaps you can have the ifsroot folder on a file share somewhere  and run it from your laptops?
I have never tested… 
Be careful sharing such filesystem widely as it holds sensitive information.
Linux support will come eventually… 

The IFS Cloud application installer comes with a installer.sh for linux. 
 

I’m asking because it would reduce our hosting costs to eliminate this machine, and the difference could be dramatic if this allows us to explore new vendors who don’t offer Windows (or who price it like they don’t want to).

The workstation idea is a good one. Latency and bandwidth could be a problem, like when it sends the snap images, but it’s temporary, as you say.

Do you happen to know why there’s no main.sh?

I have a hard time believing IFS is running a separate Windows VM for each customer in the managed service cloud, but the marketing promise was that IFS Cloud is the same software no matter where you run it. Is my assumption about a Windows IMS wrong, or is only a partial solution delivered to customers?

Hi,
You are right - IFS Cloud Service do not use a windows management server to run main.ps1, it uses linux based pipelines using Terraform and Ansible to deploy the infrastructure. But it deploys the same helm charts i.e. a remote and a cloud deployed infrastructure is almost identical. One could say Main.ps1 acts as the remote deployments pipeline. When the decision to only support Windows was made 2020 it was based on the majority of customers needs. I believe more customers today have linux as a viable option for servers and linux competence is more common in IT departments.

What’s the expected timeline for supporting a remote installation without Windows?

The latest released remote version 3.0.20 works on linux - but is still only officially released for Windows…
RnD need to make the required test pipelines to be able to support/release on Linux.
I don’t know the timeline.

(you can try it out unsupported - just download helm/kubectl/step for Linux and run the “main” linux binary.)