Getting started#

ℹ️ Requires an Organization plan

Technical Requirements#

The server can be installed on any system that meets the following requirements:

  • A machine running latest version of Linux distribution (e.g. Ubuntu Server, CentOS, Alpine Linux)

  • Docker-engine version > 23.0.5

  • Docker-compose version > 2.18.0

  • 2 CPU cores and at least 8 GiB RAM

  • 30 GB storage on the server

  • Minimum 80 GB additional disk storage for data

  • (Optional) A user identity management service such as Azure AD or LDAP for SSO authentication.

Specific requirements for cloud setups (e.g. AWS or Azure) are described in the specific setup guides down below.

Other Requirements#

Make sure your firewall supports HTTP2 connections. Anchorpoint uses the gRPC protocol to communicate with the server, which is based on HTTP2. It has a fallback for an HTTP1 gateway, however gRPC improves the speed and effiency of realtime updates to the Anchorpoint client. We highly recommend that you start an Anchorpoint cloud trial to evaluate whether gRPC works in your environment.

Licensing#

Licensing depends on the number of users you will have. You need to contact us for a quote. You can also request a free trial license to test the self hosted environment. We also offer volume discounts if your number of users is higher than 25. If you agree, we will send you a payment link. Once the payment is made, we will send you the license key.

Setup Guides for different environments#

We provide the following guides:

  1. A general self-hosted server setup guide here

  2. An AWS EC2 instance setup guide here

  3. An Azure VM instance setup guide here

If you want to setup the stack on your own via various services like e.g. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Aws ECS) or other services that support docker containers, please see our example github repository here. It currently contains an example docker-compose stack with all the necessary configuration files described as a starting point for your own setup.