Requirements - Platform - BlueCat Gateway - 24.3.1

Gateway Installation Guide

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Product name
BlueCat Gateway
Version
24.3.1
Your environment must meet the following requirements before performing any of the tasks described in this document.
Note: If deploying Gateway on a BDDS appliance (Integrity 9.4.1 or greater only), see Gateway on BDDS requirements.
BlueCat Gateway is a container image, requiring Docker, or Docker-based container orchestration platforms to operate. BlueCat Gateway is operating system agnostic; the only software required is any supported versions of Docker or supported container orchestration platforms.
Note:
  • If deploying Gateway on a non-BlueCat appliance (i.e., a customer-provided host machine), the customer is responsible for maintaining the host operating system.

  • If deploying Gateway on BlueCat DNS/DHCP Server (Integrity 9.4.1 or greater only), BlueCat is responsible for maintaining the underlying BDDS operating system.

Depending on whether you will be authenticating with Address Manager or Micetro, you must set up the following:

  • BlueCat Address Manager 3000 appliance or greater running Address Manager v9.4 or greater, and an active maintenance subscription with BlueCat Customer Care.

    OR

  • BlueCat GEN4-7000 (BAM 7000) appliances running Address Manager v9.4.0 or greater, and an active maintenance subscription with BlueCat Customer Care.

    OR

  • Micetro 11.0 or higher running, and an active maintenance subscription with BlueCat Customer Care.

If you are running Gateway with BlueCat Address Manager (BAM), make sure each BAM appliance satisfies the following:

  • At least one BAM Configuration.

  • The BAM server must be reachable by BlueCat Gateway

    Important: BlueCat Gateway does not need to be on the same subnet as the Address Manager server. However, you must set the necessary network routing such that the BlueCat Gateway instance and Address Manager can communicate.

If you're running Gateway with Micetro, the Micetro instance must satisfy the following:

  • The Micetro server must be reachable by BlueCat Gateway. That is, you must configure the necessary network routing such that the BlueCat Gateway instance and Micetro can communicate.

Servers

  • 1 provisioned production server

  • 1 provisioned lab/testing server (recommended)

Note: The servers are used to run the BlueCat Gateway application in a Docker container.

Browsers

  • Google Chrome® 81 or greater

  • Mozilla Firefox® 75 or greater

  • Microsoft Edge 79 or greater

Software

  • Docker™ Engine v20.10.x or greater

  • BlueCat DNS/DHCP Server (BDDS) with Docker™ Engine v20.10.x or higher

  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 9 or higher with Podman

  • RedHat OpenShift Container Platform v4.3

  • Python v3.9 (required only for workflow development)

Minimum system requirements

  • CPU: 2GHz or greater

  • RAM: 4GB

  • 50GB free disk space

  • Internet connection (required if you are pulling the image from a cloud registry or if you are using GitHub to do an import.)

Recommended system requirements

  • CPU: 2 CPUs 2.5GHz or greater

  • RAM: 8GB

  • 100GB free disk space

    Note: Required disk space will vary depending on the tools and systems that are built on top of BlueCat Gateway.

Ports

  • Ports 80 (for HTTP) and 443 (for HTTPS) should be open on the server running Docker

  • Make sure you open any user-defined ports that you use for the web service.

    Attention: When executing the docker run command, if you will be exclusively using HTTPS, do not include the -p 80:8000 parameter.