Pre-requisites

Ensure all the pre-requisites are satisfied before proceeding with the installation.

AWS Access and Permissions For Installation

• AWS Console access

• Permissions to launch cloud formation stack

• Ensure you are in the correct region and have IAM permissions to create following resources

  • EC2

  • S3

  • Loadbalancer

  • Security Groups

  • RDS Mariadb Database

  • Create entries in secrets manager (for database passwords)

• Permissions to white list external services so Vexdata server can integrate with LDAP, Email, Jira, Slack and Teams.

Information Required to create Vexdata stack in AWS

• VPC : VPC in which Vexdata server will be installed.

  • Ensure the VPC has at least two private subnets in two different availability zones.

• Two private subnets in same VPC.

  • Ensure the two subnets are in two different availability zones. This is required for the load balancer.

• ssh key pair

  • This key pair will be used to login to the Vexdata server.

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