On-premise kippy installation - Technical specification
Background
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Kippy is available on Google Cloud as a shared or dedicated instance. However, if you need a kippy instance on your own private infrastructure, kippy is also available as a dedicated private instance deployed directly on to your infrastructure.
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Kippy will be deployed on a Java Tomcat Application server and can use any JDBC compliant technology for persistence, on Linux or Windows.
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You will need to provide:
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A production ready Tomcat application server.
A managed JDBC compliant database instance (e.g. Postgres).
Remote access with sufficient privileges to install and deploy to the server.
Outbound internet access over http and ssh.
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Our responsibility:
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- Deploy kippy
- Configure to connect to your mail server
- Test deployment
- Critical application fixes, patches and upgrades
- Populate kippy with data and users
- Any integrations to your internal systems
- Application support as per agreed support SLAs
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Your responsibility:
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- All monitoring and alerting
- Networking and security
- User acceptance testing
- Backups of database and file system
- Infrastructure maintenance
- Vulnerability testing
- Penetration testing
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Technical notes:
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The default installation is a single node deployment - with no failure over or resilience - other options are available.
Kippy requires a minimum of 32Gb of RAM for a typical enterprise deployment.
Kippy requires a minimum of 2.4 GHz x64-bit CPU (or equivalent)
Kippy requires a minimum of 100 GB of available storage space
Kippy requires a Linux or Windows operating system
All infrastructure must be production ready
All infrastructure components must be a on modern, supported, stable version
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