Pre-requisites

Before deploying Vijil Evaluate in your enterprise environment, ensure you have the following foundational skills and resources:

  • AWS Account: You must have access to an AWS account with sufficient permissions to create and manage EKS clusters, RDS/Aurora databases, OpenSearch domains, and S3 buckets.

  • AWS CLI: Install and configure the AWS CLI on your local machine.

  • kubectl: Install kubectl to interact with your Kubernetes cluster.

  • IAM Permissions: Ensure your AWS user/role has permissions to create and manage EKS, RDS/Aurora, OpenSearch, and S3 resources.

  • Basic Kubernetes Knowledge: Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts and resource management is required.

  • Networking: Understanding of VPC, subnets, and security groups in AWS.

Dependencies

The following AWS resources and services are required for a production deployment of Vijil Evaluate:

Core

  • Amazon EKS Cluster: The primary compute environment for running Vijil Evaluate services.

Datastores

  • PostgreSQL Database: Used for persistent storage of application data. This can be provisioned using:

    • Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible) – recommended for high availability and scalability.

    • Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL – suitable for smaller-scale or non-production deployments.

    • Any other PostgreSQL solution you want that your EKS cluster has permission to access

  • Amazon OpenSearch Service: Provides search and analytics capabilities (Elasticsearch-compatible). Required for indexing and querying evaluation data.

Object Storage

  • Amazon S3: Necessary for storing artifacts and handling data uploads for harness creations and other funcitonality. You will need to create three S3 buckets:

    1. Evaluation Data Bucket – for storing evaluation results and related data.

    2. File Uploads Bucket – for handling file uploads, such as files used in harness creation.

    3. Configs Bucket – for storing configuration files required by the vijil-evaluate service.

Authentication

  • Auth0 - You will require an Auth0 account and the ability to create an Auth0 application in your tenant

Summary Table

Dependency

AWS Service

Purpose

Compute

EKS

Run Vijil Evaluate workloads

Relational DB

Aurora/RDS (PostgreSQL)

Persistent application data

Search/Analytics

OpenSearch

Indexing and querying evaluation data

Object Storage

S3

Store artifacts, logs, and backups

Note: All resources should be provisioned in the same AWS region for optimal performance and cost efficiency.

Once these pre-requisites and dependencies are in place, you can proceed to the deployment steps.