Setting Up Evaluators for a Kubernetes Environment

When deploying the Autoscaling Service to Kubernetes, you must create an image with the rep-evaluator executable and solver application executables. This image should be used when configuring the autoscaler's available applications.

Go the Ansys Customer Portal and select Downloads > HPC Platform Services.
Download the applicable file:
OS Required file
CentOS 7 rep-evaluator-centos7.tgz
CentOS 8 or later, Ubuntu rep-evaluator-default.tgz
Unzip the tgz file.
Unzip the tar file.
Change (cd) to the extracted folder. This folder contains the rep-evaluator executable.
Go the Ansys Customer Portal and download the executable file of the solver application.
Create an image and copy the rep-evaluator executable and solver application executable.

OS	Required file
CentOS 7	rep-evaluator-centos7.tgz
CentOS 8 or later, Ubuntu	rep-evaluator-default.tgz

Ensure that the image entrypoint.sh file contains the following instructions:

ANSYS_EVAL_LOGIN=${ANSYS_EVAL_LOGIN:-1}
ANSYS_EVAL_BASE_OPTS="--plugin-path=<< plugin path >>"
ANSYS_EVAL_LOGIN_OPTS=""

if [[ $ANSYS_EVAL_LOGIN -ge 1 ]]; then
    echo "Logging in ..."
    << path to rep-evaluator executable >> $ANSYS_EVAL_BASE_OPTS login $ANSYS_EVAL_LOGIN_OPTS
fi

echo "Starting evaluator ..."
echo "Options: $ANSYS_EVAL_BASE_OPTS $*"
 << path to rep-evaluator executable >> $ANSYS_EVAL_BASE_OPTS $*