Set up a STACKIT account for Exasol Personal

Learn how to set up a STACKIT account to deploy Exasol Personal.

Prerequisites

The following procedure assumes that you have a basic understanding of how STACKIT works and how to create and manage a STACKIT organization. For more information, refer to the STACKIT documentation.

The STACKIT account must have the permissions to create projects.

Create a STACKIT account

  • If you do not have a STACKIT account, visit the STACKIT portal to create one.

  • In the STACKIT portal, make sure you have an active organization with billing configured.

Steps in the STACKIT portal

  1. Go to the Resource manager.

  2. Create a new project and enter it.

  3. Go to IAM → Service Accounts.

  4. Create a service account and select it.

  5. Copy the service account’s email.

  6. Create a service account key and download the JSON file.

  7. Go to IAM → Access.

  8. Grant access to the service account using its email as the subject and give it the Editor role in the Basic section.

  9. Copy the project’s UUID from the URL or from the Resource manager.

Steps on your local machine

  1. Set the STACKIT_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY_PATH environment variable to the path where you downloaded the service account credentials:

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    # Linux / macOS (Bash)
    export STACKIT_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY_PATH=/path/to/credentials.json
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    # Windows (PowerShell)
    $env:STACKIT_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY_PATH=C:\path\to\credentials.json
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    # Windows (cmd)
    set STACKIT_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY_PATH=C:\path\to\credentials.json

  2. Run the launcher with the STACKIT preset with the --project-id argument.

    The default region is eu01. To deploy to a different region, pass --region:

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    exasol install stackit --project-id "<your-project-uuid>"
    exasol install stackit --region eu02 --project-id "<your-project-uuid>"

Next steps

Deploy Exasol Personal (full procedure)