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: AWS EKS

• AWS EBS CI driver is installed and configured. For details, go to the AWS EBS documentation.

• Volume Snapshot CRDs and the Volume Snapshot controller are installed and configured. For installation instructions, go to step 3 of this AWS blog post. 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.