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System Requirements

The platform system requirements are:

  • Kubernetes (v 1.24+)
  • Helm (v 3.5+)
  • Postgres (v 11, 13.4)
  • Redis (v 6.2+)
  • Istio Operator
  • Strimzi Kafka Operator (and Kafka 3.2.0) (v 0.29.0)
  • Elastic Search

Please refer to current README files directly from the KOBIL Chart repository https://charts.kobil.com for currently required version components as well as KOBIL Shift and KOBIL Shift-Operator packages. Please register the KOBIL Chart repository to your local helm tool and download running helm show readme <kobil-repo>/shift i.e. for KOBIL Shift.

IMPORTANT: If you are new to this technology stack please be aware that KOBIL cannot provide component specific consulting for these external components. Please see the respective vendor/project documentations and or include respective consultants for the project.

There is no requirement where the Kubernetes Cluster is hosted as KOBIL Shift uses standard k8s API. Options are among others:

  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) hosted on AWS
  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) hosted on Google Cloud Platform/GCP
  • Openshift environment hosted by public cloud services or private cloud implementation
  • Bare metal cluster based on VMs/machines hosting local kubernetes implementation.

KOBIL Shift actively supports the Jaeger tracing. It is essential for development and production support to install/use Jaeger or similar tracing tools to allow error tracing during operations.

Logfile monitoring is supported via Loki/Grafana or similar.

Monitoring details see: KOBIL Shift Services Logging and Monitoring