SAS Viya ARK provides interoperating tools and utilities to help SAS customers prepare for a SAS® Viya® deployment.
SAS Viya ARK is a collection of resources to automate and streamline tasks that are required to prepare an environment for a SAS Viya deployment.
The master branch supports the latest release of SAS Viya. Visit the releases page for specific information about SAS Viya-ARK and related SAS Viya product releases.
SAS Viya ARK provides the following types of assistance:
- Pre-deployment assessment and optional configuration
- Post-deployment automation and utilities
- Upgrade task automation
- Infrastructure templates
Each item that is included in the resource kit provides a document that describes its specific prerequisites and functionality.
For example, a functioning Ansible Controller is required to run the Ansible playbooks that are included below in the Pre-installation Playbook section. A list of the available playbooks is provided.
Tool support for the latest release of SAS Viya:
- Pre-installation of SAS Viya System Requirements
- SAS Viya Deployment Report
- SAS Viya Multi-Machine Services Utilities
- SAS Viya Upgrade Task Playbooks
- Merge SAS Viya Deployment Files
- Home Directory Creator
- SAS Data Server Utility Script
- SAS Viya LDAP Validator
Related Tools Not Contained in SAS Viya ARK:
- SAS Viya ARK only supports Linux. For Windows supporting tools, go to SAS Viya Deployment Assistant for Windows.
The following issues are known and may impact the expected usage or performance of the Viya ARK tools.
- SAS Viya 3.5 supports Linux on Power on a limited availability basis. The SAS Viya ARK tools do not support Linux on Power in the Viya35-ark-1.0 release.
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.