Fresh Installation Polarity Server v5

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 around 50 users:

• 4 Cores

• 32 GB of RAM

• 250 GB storage

  • ensure wherever /app is installed has enough storage for containers

Deployment Methods

1. Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

   • Amazon Linux 2023

2. Single server container deployment

   • Supported Operating Systems:

     • Debian-Based Distros, such as:

       • Debian 11 / 12

       • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS

     • Enterprise Linux-Based Distros, such as:

       • RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9

       • CentOS Stream

       • Rocky Linux 8 / 9

       • Oracle Linux 8 / 9

       • Amazon Linux

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

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

---

Confirm Operating System

uname -a
cat /etc/os-release

Install OS Dependencies

Amazon Linux 2

Docker

yum install docker -y

JQ / Postgres / WGET

yum install -y jq postgresql wget

Docker Compose

These commands install Docker Compose and add the path to your user's default PATH.

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

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

EL 8 / 9 (eg. CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, RHEL, etc.)

Docker

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

JQ / Postgres / WGet

dnf install -y jq postgresql wget

Docker Compose

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

Debian / Ubuntu

Update Dependencies

sudo apt-get update

Docker

sudo apt-get install -y docker.io

JQ / Postgres / WGET/Python Utils

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

Docker Compose

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

Download the Self-Extracting Installation Scripts

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