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thesasuser
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

Hello
I have some basic question on SAS Viya 4 on AWS. I would appreciate if somebody can enlighten me about them.

1.What is the OS in the container -Windows or Linux or to be precise can we have Windows OS?
2.Can we mount the local windows drive onto the container on AWS?
Thanks in anticipation.

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gwootton
SAS Super FREQ
1. The Viya container images are Linux-based, this is not configurable.
2. You would not be able to mount your desktop drives into an AWS EKS cluster, though Viya does support uploading files from your desktop into Viya. Mounts into the cluster must be defined in the cluster configuration and are limited to Kubernetes supported mount types. Volume mounts supported by Kuberentes can be found here:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/
For a windows share I think you would need to mount it to the underlying nodes and then use a local or hostPath volume to bring that into the container. AWS support may have a better idea of what options they have available for you.
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gwootton
SAS Super FREQ
1. The Viya container images are Linux-based, this is not configurable.
2. You would not be able to mount your desktop drives into an AWS EKS cluster, though Viya does support uploading files from your desktop into Viya. Mounts into the cluster must be defined in the cluster configuration and are limited to Kubernetes supported mount types. Volume mounts supported by Kuberentes can be found here:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/
For a windows share I think you would need to mount it to the underlying nodes and then use a local or hostPath volume to bring that into the container. AWS support may have a better idea of what options they have available for you.
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Greg Wootton | Principal Systems Technical Support Engineer
thesasuser
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

Thank you so much Greg for the information.
One more request can you please provide some links/references that may help a beginner get an understanding of SAS Viya 4 and AWS.
Thanks once again.

gwootton
SAS Super FREQ
This might be a helpful place to start:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Ask-the-Expert/The-Basics-of-SAS-Viya-4-Administration-Q-amp-A-Slides...
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Greg Wootton | Principal Systems Technical Support Engineer

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