Before you begin¶
Before you start the cluster deployment, verify that your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements for an AWS-based management cluster.
Warning
Some of the AWS features required for Container Cloud may not be included into your AWS account quota. Therefore, carefully consider the AWS fees applied to your account that may increase for the Container Cloud infrastructure.
Note
For the bootstrap node, you can use any local machine running Ubuntu 20.04 with the following resources:
2 vCPUs
4 GB of RAM
5 GB of available storage
Resource |
Requirement |
---|---|
# of nodes |
4 (3 for HA + 1 for Bastion) |
# of vCPUs |
25 (8 per node + 1 for Bastion) |
RAM in GB |
73 (24 per node + 1 for Bastion) |
Storage in GB |
360 (120 per node) |
Instance type |
Warning Do not stop the AWS instances dedicated to the Container Cloud clusters to prevent data failure and cluster disaster. |
Bastion host instance type |
|
# of volumes |
7 (total 110 GB) |
# of Elastic load balancers |
10 |
# of Elastic IP addresses |
1 |
Software |
Version |
---|---|
Operating system distribution |
Ubuntu 20.04 |
Docker |
Current version available for Ubuntu 20.04 |