# ODK Central Deployment

## Introduction

ODK is used mainly by the Registration Toolkit to collect data offline and online.

## Prerequisites

* The following utilities/tools must be present on the user's machine.
  * `kubectl`, `istioctl`, `helm`, `jq`, `curl`, `wget`, `git`, `bash`, `envsubst`.
* [PostgreSQL](/1.2/deployment/external-components-setup/postgresql-server.md)

## Installation

* Clone the <https://github.com/openg2p/openg2p-deployment> repo and navigate to [kubernetes/odk-central](https://github.com/OpenG2P/openg2p-deployment/tree/main/kubernetes/odk-central) directory.
* Run:

  ```bash
  SANDBOX_HOSTNAME="openg2p.sandbox.net" \
      ./install.sh
  ```
* Note: The above helm chart uses the following docker images built from <https://github.com/getodk/central/tree/v2023.1.0>, since ODK Central doesn't provide pre-built docker images for these.

  ```
  openg2p/odk-central-backend:v2023.1.0
  openg2p/odk-central-frontend:v2023.1.0
  openg2p/odk-central-enketo:v2023.1.0
  ```

## Post-installation

After installation is successful, ODK Central will be accessible at <https://odk.openg2p.sandbox.net>, depending on the hostname given above.

To create the first user, do this (Subsequent users can be created through UI.):

* Exec into the service pod, and create a user (and promote if required).

  ```bash
  kubectl exec -it <service-pod> -- odk-cmd -u <email> user-create
  kubectl exec -it <service-pod> -- odk-cmd -u <email> user-promote
  ```


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