# Artifacts

## What is an Artifact?

An artifact is simply a smaller component or informational property of a larger object, resource, or service that acts in a manner to produce or determine an intended output. It can also be defined as the logic that defines what elements of a deployment have to be installed and how. These informational pieces are created to be used for the deployment and operation of a system.

## Airctl and Helpers

The following artifacts are used to aid in the implementation and configuration of the different airctl elements.

* *airctl-.tar.gz*: This compressed file contains the airctl binary. This is the primary CLI tool used for management of the Platform9 Self Managed Cloud Platform (SMCP)
* *airctl-scripts-.tar.gz*: This compact file contains all the associated scripts used by airctl
* *pf9-deploy-.tar*: This is a helper container that creates the configuration file for the Platform9 management plane
* *du-.tar.gz*: The compressed Management Server file includes the CentOS 7.x VM image, along with the required binaries. This VM is configured through the *pf9-deploy* and *ansible-stack* commands
* *ansible-.tar.gz*: This file contains the ansible stack utilized by the *pf9-deploy* command above

## Offline Packages

The following artifacts are primarily employed for offline (or air-gapged) edge cloud installations.

* *hostagent-.tar.gz*: This file contains the yum repo information for the platform9 agents running on the hosts. Platform9 can automatically deploy this, or it can be added using foreman
* *docker-.tar.gz*: Similar to the file above, it can be either installed using Platform9 *airctl* or using foreman
* *docker-imgs-.tar.gz*: This file contains all the docker images that Platform9 initially requires. Airctl can add it to the cache of every host.
* *pf9-kube-.tar.gz*: This file contains the packages needed for a Kubernetes multi-version implementation

## Installed File Locations

Once setup, all the installed files are located under the `/opt/pf9/airctl` directory.

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```bash
ls -alh /opt/pf9/airctl
drwxr-xr-x.  8 root root  203 Sep  9 17:05 .
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root   20 Sep  9 17:04 ..
-rwxr-xr-x.  1  350  350  18M Sep  8 22:33 airctl
drwxr-xr-x. 12  350  350 4.0K Sep  9 17:22 ansible-stack
drwxr-xr-x.  2  350  350  113 Sep  9 17:23 conf
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   47 Sep  9 17:04 deploy
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 107M Sep  9 17:05 docker-v-5.3.0-1675863.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  11G Sep 13 23:21 du.qcow2
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  17M Sep  9 17:05 hostagent-v-5.3.0-1675863.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   80 Sep  9 17:04 imgs
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   29 Sep  9 17:04 pf9-kube
drwxr-xr-x.  3  350  350  220 Sep  9 17:07 scripts
```

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