Fresh Install

This page walks through how to quickly install Polarity Server version 5 on a new server.

Server Requirements

We recommend the following server specs for a deployment of up to approximately 50 users:

• 4 Cores

• 32 GB of RAM

• 250 GB storage

  • ensure whichever volume contains /var has enough storage for containers

Deployment Methods

1. Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

   1. Amazon Linux 2023 

2. Single server container deployment

   1. Supported Operating Systems:

      1. Debian-Based Distros, such as:

      2. Debian 11 / 12

      3. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS

   2. Enterprise Linux-Based Distros, such as:

      1. RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 

      2. CentOS Stream

      3. Rocky Linux 8 / 9

      4. Oracle Linux 8 / 9

      5. Amazon Linux

3. Single server container deployment - separating out Redis and Postgres to different servers

   1. Typically, this will be done in AWS using Elasticache and RDS

Installation Steps

Confirm Operating System

cat /etc/os-release

Install OS Dependencies

dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://download.docker.com/linux/rhel/docker-ce.repo
dnf install docker-ce -y --allowerasing
systemctl enable --now docker

dnf install -y jq postgresql wget

wget https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -O /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod -v +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y docker.io jq postgresql-client wget python3-distutils-extra

sudo wget https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -O /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod -v +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Check Docker Components

docker --version
docker-compose --version

Enable Docker Service

systemctl enable --now docker 

Download and Execute the Self-Extracting Installation Script

Please reach out to your Polarity Customer Success Representative for the link.