Deploying aiWARE via the command line interface includes a combination of planning, downloading, installing, configuring, running, and testing the installed software. Deployment can also include uninstallation and reinstallation of aiWARE.
Planning the installation of aiWARE
To successfully install aiWARE on your environment, carefully plan what components to install and how to distribute services across nodes. See Planning the aiWARE installation.
Installing aiWARE
The installation of aiWARE mostly consists of command line commands to issue in one or more nodes. See Installing aiWARE.
Testing the installation
To ensure that aiWARE is installed correctly in your environment, test that the components are running and can produce the expected results. See Testing the aiWARE installation.
Change the home directory
You can optionally change the home directory. See aiWARE home directories.
Troubleshooting the installation
If you have problems installing aiWARE, see Troubleshooting the aiWARE installation.
Post-installation tasks
After installing aiWARE, your system is ready for use. Depending on how you plan to use your system, some administrative tasks might be needed. See Post-installation tasks.
Updating aiWARE
To update aiWARE, perform the re-installation of services. See Update aiWARE.
Uninstall aiWARE
When you uninstall the aiWARE platform from a node, you can no longer perform AI Processing on that node. However, AI Data remains on the node. You can also choose to delete the remaining AI Data. See Uninstall aiWARE.
aiWARE environment variables
Environment variables control the behavior of aiWARE in your environment. For a list of environment variables, see aiWARE environment variables.
Terminology
This documentation uses the following terminology.
| Term | Definition |
| aiWARE instance | The entire set of nodes running any parts of an aiWARE stack. An instance can have one node or multiple nodes. |
| engine | In the installation context, an engine is a run mode that labels a node as a processing node. In the aiWARE stack, an engine is a cognitive processing unit. |
| node | A host that runs aiWARE services. |
