Linux Installation

Preliminary notes

Before you begin the installation, please ensure that the System requirements are met and that docker engine is already installed on the system..

If the MetaDefender Software Supply Chain installer package dependencies are not installed on your system the installer will attempt to automatically download them over the internet.

Acquire the package

In order to acquire the package please visit My OPSWAT -> Product Downloads

Advanced installation

We recommend that production deployments use an external database and ensure that web traffic is encrypted. For detailed information on how to configure an external database or HTTPS see advanced installation section - Advanced installation for Unix-based deployments.

Debian / Ubuntu package (.deb)

1. Update your packages

sudo apt update

2. Install the necessary package dependencies

sudo apt install jq curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common

3. Move to the folder containing the installer and install it

sudo dpkg -i <name of the file>.deb || sudo apt-get install -f

4. After the installation is completed, check if everything went fine

man mdssc

or using the help menu

sudo mdssc -h

5. Run the following command in order to initialize MetaDefender Software Supply Chain

sudo mdssc -u init

6. Start the service

sudo mdssc -c start

7. Optionally, you can check the status using the following command:

sudo mdssc -c status

8. Open a browser and navigate to the web interface: http://<server> to configure your deployment.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS package (.rpm)

1. Update your packages

sudo yum -y update

2. Move to the folder containing the installer and install it

sudo yum install -y <name of the file>.rpm

3. After the installation is completed, check if everything went fine

sudo man mdssc

or using the help menu

sudo mdssc -h

4. Run the following command in order to initialize MetaDefender Software Supply Chain

sudo mdssc -u init

Note: If you don’t have docker already installed, the installer will do that for you, but you will be prompted to sign out and sign back in. This is necessary because your current user needs to be added to the docker group.

5. Start the service

sudo mdssc -c start

6. Optionally, you can check the status using the following command:

sudo mdssc -c status

7. Open a browser and navigate to the web interface: http://<server> to configure your deployment.
8. If you are using firewall (on CentOS8 and RHEL 8) you may need to update it's policies:

# Check what interface docker is using, e.g. 'docker0'

ip link show

# Check available firewalld zones, e.g. 'public'

sudo firewall-cmd --get-active-zones

# Check what zone the docker interface it bound to, most likely 'no zone' yet

sudo firewall-cmd --get-zone-of-interface=docker0

# So add the 'docker0' interface to the 'public' zone. Changes will be visible only after firewalld reload

sudo nmcli connection modify docker0 connection.zone public

# Masquerading allows for docker ingress and egress (this is the juicy bit)

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-masquerade --permanent

# Optional open required incomming ports (wasn't required in my tests)

# sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=443/tcp

# Reload firewalld

sudo firewall-cmd --reload

# Reload dockerd

sudo systemctl restart docker

Podman Configuration

MDSSC can also run using the Podman container engine instead of the default Docker one on RHEL operating systems. Podman, podman-docker and docker-compose need to be installed and running before installing MDSSC.

After the installation is complete, MDSSC needs to be configured to skip the checks for the default Docker engine. This is done by setting SKIP_DOCKER_CHECKS=yes in the /etc/mdssc/customer.env file. The following commands can be used to install Podman and MDSSC on RHEL.

# install podman, podman-docker and docker-compose

sudo yum install podman

sudo yum install podman-docker

sudo curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.15.1/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

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sudo systemctl enable podman.socket

sudo systemctl start podman.socket

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# disable SELinux temporarily

setenforce 0

# to disable selinux permanetly 'SELINUX=disabled' needs to be set in the following config file

sudo vim /etc/selinux/config

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# install additional MDSSC dependencies

sudo subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-$(arch)-rpms

sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

sudo yum install lvm2

sudo yum install wget

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# install MDSSC

sudo rpm -i mdssc-x.x.x.noarch.rpm

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# edit customer.env and add SKIP_DOCKER_CHECKS=yes

sudo vim /etc/mdssc/customer.env

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# start MDSSC

sudo mdssc -c start