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.