System Environment Setup¶

Update the `/etc/environment` file:¶

Follow the instructions below to ready the /etc/environment file for the system installation:

Open the /etc/environment file:
```
sudo nano /etc/environment
```

Add the followings environment variables to the /etc/environment file:

export HOST_NAME="<kubernetes.machine.name>"
export API_SERVER_HOST_NAME="<cloud.reportingtool.org>"
export POSTGRESQL_SERVER_HOST_NAME="<cloud.reportingtool.org>"
export RABBITMQ_SERVER_HOST_NAME="<rabbitmq.reportingtool.org>"
export REGISTRY_SERVER_HOST_NAME="<cloud.reportingtool.org>"
export TRAEFIK_SERVER_HOST_NAME="<traefik.reportingtool.org>"

Press Ctrl + X button and the enter Y to save the updates.
Reload the /etc/environment file:
```
. /etc/environment
```

Update the `/etc/hosts` file¶

Follow the instructions that follow to ready the /etc/hosts file for the system installation:

Open the /etc/hosts file:
```
sudo nano /etc/hosts
```

Add the followings hosts line to the /etc/hosts file:

<10.118.16.9> <cloud.reportingtool.org> <rabbitmq.reportingtool.org>
<traefik.reportingtool.org>

Please remember to replace the sections with angular brackets with actual values.
Please note that this assumes that the cloud, rabbitmq and traefik are all on a single server.

Press Ctrl + X button and the enter Y to save the updates.
Reload the /etc/hosts file:
```
. /etc/hosts
```

Install jq¶

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. Follow the instructions that follow to install it on your system:

sudo apt-get install jq