Kiuwan on premise installer is a powerful tool that suits multiple environment scenarios:

Depending on your needs, a different installation approach will be needed. Check this installation guide for details on how to proceed and find the solution that best fits your requirements.

System requirements

Installation requirements

It is mandatory for any host where a Kiuwan on premises service is installed to meet this requirements:

These software is also needed:

 

Please follow Docker official recommendations when installing Docker. Check the URLs for your Linux distribution:

We also recommend using the target installation hosts exclusively for Kiuwan services. If you plan running other containers than Kiuwan's, please make sure that non of them is using the following network:

172.172.0.0/16

CPU and memory minimum requirements

The following table shows the minimum requirements for each service. Note that these are only minimum requirements. You should take care of giving each service enough resources depending on your system demands.

ServiceMemoryCPU cores
wildfly-f[n]1.5GB2 cores
wildfly-a[n]1.5GB2 cores
wildfly-s[n]1.5GB2 cores
mysql4GB4 cores
loadbalancer1GB1 core
redis_0000[n]2GB2 cores

Note: CPU clock speed and disk speed will affect overal response time. 

Above configuration is recommended for a system load that requires continuous service for:

The Kiuwan on premise installation tool (kiuwan-cluster)

Kiuwan on premise installation process is carried out by our "kiuwan-cluster" tool.

The tool is provided as a tar.gz file. The following table summarizes the resources you will find once the tool distribution is extracted:

ResourcePurpose
/config/volumes.propertiesConfiguration file to set where your persistent volumes will reside.
/docker/*.shAdvanced shell scripts to interact with your Kiuwan on premise installation.
/logsThe installation logs.
/sslTools that ease the certificate creation to keep Kiuwan on premise under a secure environment.
/user-contentA place to put resources the installation process will need.
/volumesThe empty persistent volumes (that may be copied to different locations depending on your installation needs).

*.sh

Main shell scripts to interact with your Kiuwan on premise installation.

The following sections will guide you through the installation process.

Installation: common steps

 

Installation: single-host

 

Installation: externalizing services

 

Installation: clustered environments