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-20.5/

  • 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