Installation Prerequisites
This page covers the minimum hardware and software requirements to install and run Digital.ai Release. Also, you will get information about the supported operating systems, databases, web browsers, kubernetes platforms, JDKs, message brokers, upgrade versions, and so on. Ensure that your setup is better than the stated minimum requirements, depending on your site's size and usage pattern. For more assistance, contact Digital.ai support.
Supported Operating Systems
The following operating systems are supported:
| Operating Systems | Versions Supported |
|---|---|
| Windows Server | 2022, 2019, and 2016 |
| Ubuntu | 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS |
| CentOS | 7.x |
| RHEL | 8.X |
Supported Databases
The following databases are supported:
| Database | Versions Supported |
|---|---|
| PostgreSQL | 15.0 and 14.6 |
| MySQL | 8.0 and 5.7 |
| Oracle | 19c |
| Microsoft SQL Server | 2019 (15.0) |
| IBM DB2 | 11.5 and 11.1 |
Important: The container-based task functionality is not compatible with DB2.
Important: DB2 is no longer supported as the database of choice for new sites. However, existing DB2 sites are supported by Digital.ai until IBM stops support for DB2.
Release is installed with an embedded database, by default for easy setup in evaluation and test environments. For production use, we recommend using an industrial-grade external database server such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server. For more information, see Configure the SQL repository.
Note: In Release, you have the PostgreSQL streaming replication set up to create a high availability (HA) cluster configuration with one or more standby servers ready to take over operations if the primary server fails.
Note: You may use the older versions of Release and Databases. However, we have performed limited validations to ensure that Release works in database cluster environment. For example, we validated Release 10.2.x with PostgreSQL 12.4 cluster using Patroni.
Supported Web Browsers
The following web browsers are supported:
| Web Browsers | Versions Supported |
|---|---|
| Chrome | 109 and 108 |
| Edge chromium | 108 |
| Firefox | 109.0 and 108.0 |
Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 is recommended to work with the Release UI.
Supported Kubernetes Platforms
The following Kubernetes platforms are supported:
- AWS EKS
- Azure AKS
- GCP GKE
- Kubernetes on-premise
- OpenShift on VMWare vSphere
- OpenShift on AWS
Note: This is only for operator-based installation, and not for JVM based installation.
Supported Java Development Kit
The following Java Development Kits (JDK) is supported:
| JDKs | Versions Supported |
|---|---|
| IBM JDK | 11 |
| Oracle JDK | 11 |
| Open JDK | 11 |
Release is not supported on non-LTS Java Development Kits (JDKs). For more information on LTS and non-LTS Java versions, see Java SE support roadmap.
Supported Message Brokers
The following message brokers are supported:
- ActiveMQ
- RabbitMQ
Release Server Hardware Requirements
The following table lists the CPU, RAM, JVM Heap Size, and DB configuration recommendations for Small, Medium, Large and sites.
| Small | Medium | Large | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Users | 100 | 200 | 500 |
| CPU | Quad-core | Octa-core | >16-core |
| Memory | 8GB | 16GB | 32GB |
| JVM Heap Size | 4 GB (50% of available RAM) | 8 GB (50% of available RAM) | 16 GB (50% of available RAM) |
| DB Configuration | Quad-core | Octa-core | >32-core |
Notes:
- Allocating more than 6 GB RAM to the Release process does not show significant performance improvements.
- Install Digital.ai Release on a hard drive that is persistent, and not a Network File System (NFS).
- Hard disk usage depends on configuration of the product.
- At least 100GB of storage for the default installation that runs an embedded database.
- Use a faster hard drive. For example, use SSDs in RAID 4 environment.
Release Server Software Requirements
The following are the software requirements to install the Release server:
Note: Release supports only IPv4 and does not yet support IPv6.
Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronization
There must be a NTP synchronization between Release server and Database server(s).
From https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP#configuration-knobs-baby:
HikariCP relies on accurate timers for both performance and reliability. It is important that your server is synchronized with a time-source such as an NTP server. This is required if your server is running within a virtual machine. For more information, see HickariCP documentation.
Important: Do not rely on the hypervisor settings to synchronize the clock of the virtual machine. Configure time-source synchronization inside the virtual machine.
Reference Setup
The following sections cover the hardware and configuration details of Release:
Release Application Server
- Two Quad Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5450 3.00GHz
- 16GB RAM
- Two 300GB 10K SAS 2.5" disks
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Operating system | CentOS Linux 7.x |
| Installed software | A single Release instance running as a service and a monitoring system |
| Release version | 23.1 |
| Release setup | Standalone, non-clustered |
| Java version | IBM JDK 11 |
Release configurations
| Parameter | Value | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
wrapper.java.additional.1 | -Xms2048m | XL_RELEASE_SERVER_HOME/conf/xlr-wrapper-linux.conf | Sets the heap size to minimum 2GB. The default minimum value is 1GB. |
wrapper.java.additional.2 | -Xmx6144m | XL_RELEASE_SERVER_HOME/conf/xlr-wrapper-linux.conf | Sets the heap size to maximum 6GB. The default maximum value is 4GB. |
threads.min | 64 | XL_RELEASE_SERVER_HOME/conf/xl-release-server.conf | Sets the minimum number of HTTP threads to 64. |
threads.max | 256 | XL_RELEASE_SERVER_HOME/conf/xl-release-server.conf | Sets the maximum number of HTTP threads to 256. |
xl.executors.scheduler.maxThreadsCount | 128 | XL_RELEASE_SERVER_HOME/conf/xl-release.conf | Sets the maximum number of threads for asynchronous operations to 128. |
xl.database.max_pool_size | 64 | XL_RELEASE_SERVER_HOME/conf/xl-release.conf | Sets the maximum number of threads for database pool to 64. |
SQL Database Server
- Two Quad Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5450 3.00GHz
- 16GB RAM
- Two 300GB 10K SAS 2.5" disks
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Operating system | CentOS Linux 7.x |
| Release persistence | PostgreSQL 15.0 or 14.4 |
PostgreSQL configurations
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
max_connections | 512 |
shared_buffers | 4GB |
effective_cache_size | 12GB |
synchronous_commit | off |
max_wal_size | 1GB |
For more information about the configuration, see tuning your PostgreSQL server.
This configuration supports up to 2000 concurrent users running a test set of 200 active releases, 200 templates, 200 completed releases, and 200 folders. All of these, with a mean response time of less than 100 milliseconds.
Note: Other configuration settings may be optimal for your environment (active-active) and load profile (number of concurrent users and release structure).
LDAP
To connect Release to your corporate Active Directory or LDAP server, see Configure LDAP security for Release.
Upgrade Release version
You can perform an one-hop upgrade from the following versions to Release 23.1 version:
- Release 22.0.x
- Release 22.1.x
- Release 22.2.x
- Release 22.3.x