System requirements

A self-hosted instance of Tonic Ephemeral has the following requirements.

PostgreSQL application database

The Ephemeral application database stores information about Ephemeral objects and users.

For the application database, you must provide a PostgreSQL database with the following characteristics:

Version:	PostgreSQL 16+
Database user:	Must have permission to: Create a database Create tables Insert Select

Cluster requirements

The Kubernetes cluster where you deploy Ephemeral has the following requirements:

• Runtime is either:

  • AWS EKS - For this option, AWS EBS CSI driver must be installed and configured. For details, go to the AWS EBS documentation.

  • Azure AKS - For this option, Azure Disk CSI driver must be installed and configured. For details, go to the Azure Disk documentation.

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) - For this option, the Google Compute Engine persistent disk CSI driver must be installed and configured. For details, go to the GKE documentation.

• Volume Snapshot CRDs and the Volume Snapshot controller are installed and configured. For installation instructions, go to the kubernetes-csi documentation. For snapshotter documentation, go to the external-snapshotter GitHub repository.

• external-dns is installed and configured. For details, go to the external-dns GitHub repository.

• (Optional) Kubernetes autoscaler is installed and configured. For details, go to the autoscaler GitHub repository.