Installation Prerequisites

Before installing Approval Engine (AE), make sure that:

  • All necessary components of supported versions are installed. Refer to the release notes chapter to know on which components a specific version of AE depends.
  • The docker and helm repositories are set correctly. They must point to the public CloudBlue Commerce repositories as follows:

    • Helm repo: https://odindevops.jfrog.io/odindevops/a8n-helm-20.4/

    • Docker repo: odindevops-a8n-docker.jfrog.io/a8n-docker/

  • AE has access to the AE database.
  • At least the following computing resources are available:

    Computing resource AE Endpoint PostgreSQL Database
    CPU 500 MHz 250 MHz
    RAM 1 GB 256 MB
    Diskspace Not required 7 GB
  • The following ports are open:

    From To Protocol Port Purpose
    CloudBlue Commerce management node Micro-services node TCP 8081 For access to the AE service backend (HTTPS is used for communication)
    Micro-services node AE database node TCP 5432 For connecting to the PostgreSQL database