- Overview
- Requirements
- Pre-installation
- Installation
- Post-installation
- Migration and upgrade
- Monitoring and alerting
- Cluster administration
- Product-specific configuration
- Troubleshooting
Automation Suite on EKS/AKS Installation Guide
Automation Suite overview
Automation Suite enables you to deploy the complete UiPath® automation platform on a containerized platform such as AKS, EKS, a managed Kubernetes offered by Azure or Amazon AWS, and OpenShift from Red Hat. Additionally, you can deploy Automation Suite in a Linux environment ranging from bare metal machines to on-premises virtual machine infrastructure or cloud subscriptions to any of the major providers.
Automation Suite includes:
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The UiPath® server products, with the exception of any new products shipping in Automation Cloud first.
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All shared suite capabilities that enable you to easily configure the integration with existing enterprise systems, such as AD, AAD, or SAML, across all products; a common experience is offered across the suite for the user, tenant, external applications, and license management.
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Common end-user portal.
This guide provides documentation for installing Automation Suite on your EKS or AKS cluster.
You can deploy Automation Suite in an online or offline environment, with optional proxy use, in either lite mode or multi-node mode.
Automation Suite is pre-configured with optional OPA policies and network policies to follow the principles of the least privilege. In addition, to control the OPA policies, Automation Suite also bundles an optional Gatekeeper component.
Before installing Automation Suite, you must make sure that your cluster meets the infrastructure requirements.
uipathctl CLI tool, which handles
operations such as running prerequisite validations, installing
Automation Suite on your cluster, and performing upgrades.
uipathctl, such as adding new products, updating
certificates, configuring Automation Suite in maintenance mode, taking backups, and
monitoring.
This section provides more details on how to upgrade Automation Suite or your infrastructure underneath Automation Suite, and how to migrate from standalone products to Automation Suite.
For details, see Upgrade and .
We aim to provide feature parity between our Automation Suite deployment models. However, there will always be some differences you should be aware of.
| User scenario/Feature | Automation Suite on Linux | Automation Suite on AKS | Automation Suite on EKS | Automation Suite on OpenShift |
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Service capabilities | ||||
| Orchestrator | ||||
| AI Center | ||||
| AI Center with external orchestrator (standalone) | ||||
| Apps | ||||
| Action Center | ||||
| Automation Hub | ||||
| Automation Ops | ||||
| Data Service | ||||
| Document Understanding | ||||
| Insights | ||||
| Integration Service | ||||
| Automation Suite Robots | ||||
| Process Mining | ||||
| Task Mining | ||||
| Test Manager | ||||
| Communications mining | ||||
| Studio Web | ||||
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Architecture | ||||
| Kubernetes | Rancher RKE2 | AKS | EKS | OpenShift |
| Databases |
MS SQL Note:
Additional Microsoft SQL platforms, such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance, as well as Amazon Relational Database Service are also supported as long as the Microsoft SQL Server database engine meets the requirements. | |||
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Storage |
UiPath® provides Ceph. |
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Service Mesh and Routing |
Rancher provided Istio Service Mesh Routing via envoy ingress gateway |
OSS Istio Service Mesh Routing via WASM plugin |
OSS Istio Service Mesh Routing via WASM plugin |
OpenShift Service Mesh Routing via WASM plugin |
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OPA |
OSS Gatekeeper |
OSS Gatekeeper |
OSS Gatekeeper |
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Monitoring |
Rancher provided Prometheus & Grafana |
OSS Prometheus & Grafana |
OSS Prometheus & Grafana |
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Caching |
Embedded Redis within the cluster and provided by UiPath® |
Cloud Redis outside the cluster and managed by customer |
Cloud Redis outside the cluster and managed by customer |
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Logging Aggregation |
Rancher provided Fluend/Fluent-bit |
OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit |
OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit |
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Cert Manager |
OSS Cert Manager |
OSS Cert Manager |
OSS Cert Manager |
OpenShift Cert Manager Operator |
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Deployment tool |
OSS ArgoCD |
OSS ArgoCD |
OSS ArgoCD |
OpenShift GitOps Operator |
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Deployment scenario | ||||
| Single Node (Non-production) |
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| Multi Node (HA) |
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| Offline |
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| Deployment method | ||||
| Advanced CLI | uipathctl |
| uipathctl | uipathctl |
| Interactive Installer |
InstallUiPathAS.sh)
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| GUI-based wizard |
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GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard. |
GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard. |
GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard. |
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| Marketplace |
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Installation | ||||
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A la carte product selection |
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| Custom domain | ||||
| Custom certificates | ||||
| Hardware requirements validation | ||||
| Proxy configuration | ||||
| Optional OSS/fabric component |
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| Enterprise grade features | ||||
| Disaster Recovery |
| (Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.) | (Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.) | (Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.) |
| Backup/restore |
You must use your own backup and restore solution. | |||
| Upgrade |
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| Troubleshooting | ||||
| Support bundle | (
support-bundle.sh)
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uipathctl)
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uipathctl)
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uipathctl)
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| Diagnostic tool | (
diagnostics-report.sh)
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uipathctl)
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uipathctl)
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uipathctl)
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| Health Checks |
| uipathctl)
| uipathctl)
| uipathctl)
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| Security | ||||
| FIPS enabled host |
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| Gatekeeper/OPA policy | ||||
| Network policy |
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| Hardened UiPath® service container images | ||||
| ArgoCD SSO |
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| mTLS for service communication |
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| Migration options | ||||
| Standalone Orchestrator to Automation Suite full migration |
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| Standalone Orchestrator to Automation single tenant migration options |
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| Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on AKS/EKS |
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| Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on OpenShift |
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Details |
Instructions |
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Requirements and installation instructions for Automation Suite. |
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Details |
Instructions |
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Complete an initial platform configuration. | |
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Connect your first robot | |
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Monitor the stack, troubleshoot issues, create alerts, and view dashboards from a centralized location. |
The following instructions take you to the corresponding product guides.
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Product |
Evaluation checklist |
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Orchestrator | |
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Automation Suite Robots | |
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Automation Hub | |
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Automation Ops | |
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Test Manager | |
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AI Center | |
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Action Center | |
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Task Mining | |
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Apps | |
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Insights | |
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Data Service | |
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Process Mining | |
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Document Understanding | |
| Integration Service | Integration Service configuration checklist |
