Digital Enterprise Suite Hosting

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Requirements

The Digital Enterprise Suite (DES) is provided as a container image. The container image can be deployed on Kubernetes (including commercial offering such as Google GKE, Azure AKS, Amazon EKS, Red Hat OpenShift, …). We may support other container orchestrator, please contact our support for details.

The container environment must support mounting persistent data volumes with a file system that supports extended files attributes.

The memory and cpu resources allocated can be tweaked from the deployment descriptors when installing but we recommend starting with the default values of:

  • Memory: 1GB to 3GB

  • CPU: 2

  • Storage: 30GB

Architecture

The Digital Enterprise Suite (DES) is designed to be deployed as a container on a container orchestrator such as Kubernetes.

des deployment

The Digital Enterprise Suite Pod contains both the modeling and automation suites.

The Maintenance Scripts cron job is responsible to clean up old versions of saved files, back up the data to an external storage (GCP Bucket, Azure Bucket, AWS Bucket).

A web interface is exposed through the ingress for all communications with the Digital Enterprise Suite. A second port can be accessed internally to gather usage metrics (monitoring).

Typically, when deployed, the web port will be secured by the ingress that exposes it as HTTPS and the second usage metric port will not be exposed outside of the cluster.

Scalable architecture

The Digital Enterprise Suite (DES) can also rely on MongoDB for the persistence the Digital Automation Suite’s data.

des deployment 2

When deployed with MongoDB, all running service instance data (workflows, cases), triggers, data stores, … are stored in the mongo database.

Since only automation runtime information are stored on the persistent volume, the use of MongoDB does not remove the requirement for the persistent volume.

To configure the MongoDB automation persistence, you can use the Service Storage administration page after you have completed the installation.