We support you with on-premise installations of Simplifier. To do that, we deliver a prepared Docker image to you. The image comes pre-configured and contains all the required components, including a Simplifier server in its most recent version.
The target instance must fulfill the following requirements:
- CPU and Memory consumption depends on the sizing of your environment – Read more on our sizing recommendation.
- x64 CPU with minimum 2 cores, 4 cores recommended and at least 2 GHz per core
- At least 40 GB of free hard disk space
- Opened incoming ports: http/80 (TCP), https/443 (TCP), https/8090 (TCP)
- Optional: Opened outgoing ports for
- preconfigured SMTP-Server (StartTLS Port 587) by Simplifier
- your Backend Systems to configure and reach the Data Sources successfully
- SSL Certificate for encrypted https traffic in frontend access
- Database
- Operating system:
- Linux (recommended)
- In general, the Docker engine can run on all Linux versions with kernel version >= 3.10, but for the versions below, there are “official” releases. If you are uncertain about the compatibility go to the Docker website.
Tested Distributions:- Ubuntu: 64-Bit Versions of Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver), 16.04 (Xenial) or 14.04 (Trusty)
- CentOS 7.3: 64-Bit
- Debian: Debian Stretch (Testing), Jessie (8.0), Wheezy (7.7, with Kernel-Update to Version 3.10)
- Fedora: Versions 24 & 25
- RHEL (Redhat Enterprise Linux) and SUSE Enterprise are officially supported only by paid docker variants (EE), Installations from CentOS Repository respectively OpenSUSE Repository are possible to use
- In general, the Docker engine can run on all Linux versions with kernel version >= 3.10, but for the versions below, there are “official” releases. If you are uncertain about the compatibility go to the Docker website.
- Windows
Install Docker for Windows-
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- Windows 10 Professional
- The runtime is given, but not as a Windows Service. The Docker Containers only stays up and runs in a locked user session.
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The Simplifier Windows Deployment is not recommend for production use, because of the limited support for container -
- Mac
Install Docker for Mac
Note: Our Docker containers, respectively the database server, require a file system which can be case-sensitive under MacOS. Therefore, it may be necessary to create a separate volume for the user data which is configured with the option “-v” when the container is started.The Simplifier MacOS Deployment is not recommend for production use, because of the limited support for container
- Linux (recommended)
“D-Q-P”-landscape
To ensure high availability and qualified operations, it is necessary to build a three-stage system landscape (= DQP-landscape: development, quality, production). Please note that with a DQP-landscape the system requirements are tripled.