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Automation Suite on Linux installation guide

Last updated Apr 29, 2025

Cross-deployment model feature comparison

We aim to provide feature parity between our Automation Suite deployment models. However, there will always be some differences you should be aware of.

If you need to deploy Automation Suite in different supported environments, refer to the following guides:

User scenario/FeatureAutomation Suite on LinuxAutomation Suite on AKSAutomation Suite on EKSAutomation Suite on OpenShift

Service capabilities

Orchestratoravailableavailableavailableavailable
AI Centeravailableavailableavailableavailable
AI Center with external orchestrator (standalone) availablenot availablenot availablenot available
Appsavailableavailableavailableavailable
Action Centeravailableavailableavailableavailable
Automation Hubavailableavailableavailableavailable
Automation Opsavailableavailableavailableavailable
Data Serviceavailableavailableavailableavailable
Document Understanding availableavailableavailableavailable
Insightsavailableavailableavailableavailable
Integration Service not availableavailableavailablenot available
Automation Suite Robots availableavailableavailableavailable
Process Miningavailableavailableavailableavailable
Task Miningavailableavailableavailablenot available
Test Manageravailableavailableavailableavailable
Communications mining not availablenot availablenot availablenot available
Studio Webnot availableavailableavailablenot available

Architecture

KubernetesRancher RKE2AKSEKSOpenShift
Databases
  • MS SQL

    Note: Additional Microsoft SQL platforms, such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance, as well as Amazon Relational Database Service are also supported as long as the Microsoft SQL Server database engine meets the requirements.
  • PostgreSQL for Process Mining Airflow database

    Note:

    Automation Suite 2024.10.3 or higher.

Storage

  • Option 1: Object Storage (Ceph)

  • Option 2: Object storage external to the cluster

UiPath® provides Ceph.

  • Object Storage: Azure Blob

  • Filesystem: Azure Filesystem

  • Block Storage: Azure Disks

  • Object Storage: AWS S3

  • Filesystem: AWS EFS

  • Block Storage: AWS EBS

  • Objectstore - Azure Blob, AWS S3, S3-compatible objectstore
  • File System - StorageClass for workloads that do not require replication
  • Block storage - StorageClass with replication for the persistent volume

Service Mesh and Routing

Rancher provided Istio Service Mesh

Routing via envoy ingress gateway

OSS Istio Service Mesh

Routing via WASM plugin

OSS Istio Service Mesh

Routing via WASM plugin

OpenShift Service Mesh

Routing via WASM plugin

OPA

OSS Gatekeeper

OSS Gatekeeper

OSS Gatekeeper

not available

Monitoring

Rancher provided Prometheus and Grafana

OSS Prometheus and Grafana

OSS Prometheus and Grafana

not available

Caching

Embedded Redis within the cluster and provided by UiPath®

Cloud Redis outside the cluster and managed by customer

Cloud Redis outside the cluster and managed by customer

  • External Redis Enterprise

  • OpenShift Redis Enterprise Operator managed by customer

Logging Aggregation

Rancher provided Fluend/Fluent-bit

OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit

OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit

not available

Cert Manager

OSS Cert Manager

OSS Cert Manager

OSS Cert Manager

OpenShift Cert Manager Operator

Deployment tool

OSS ArgoCD

OSS ArgoCD

OSS ArgoCD

OpenShift GitOps Operator

Deployment scenario

Single Node (Non-production)

available

not available

not available

not available

Multi Node (HA)

available (requires additional HAA license)

available

available

available

Online

available

availableavailableavailable
Offlineavailable

available

available

available
Deployment method
Advanced CLIuipathctl

uipathctl

uipathctluipathctl
Interactive Installer
available (InstallUiPathAS.sh)

not available

not available

not available

GUI-based wizard

not available

available

GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard.

available

GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard.

available

GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard.

Cloud deployment templates

available (AWS, Azure, GCP)

not available

not available

not available

Marketplace

available (AWS QS Only)

not available

not available

not available

Installation

A la carte product selection

available

availableavailableavailable
Custom domainavailableavailableavailableavailable
Custom certificates availableavailableavailableavailable
Hardware requirements validation availableavailableavailableavailable
Proxy configuration availableavailableavailableavailable
Optional OSS/fabric component

not available

availableavailable

not available

Enterprise grade features
Disaster Recovery

available (Active/Passive and Active/Active deployments)

not available

(Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)

not available

(Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)

not available

(Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)

Backup/restoreavailableavailableavailable

You must use your own backup and restore solution.

Upgrade

available

availableavailableavailable
Troubleshooting
Support bundleavailable
(support-bundle.sh)
available (uipathctl)
available (uipathctl)
available (uipathctl)
Diagnostic toolavailable
(diagnostics-report.sh)
available
(uipathctl)
available (uipathctl)
available (uipathctl)
Health Checks

not available

available (uipathctl) available (uipathctl) available (uipathctl)
Security
FIPS enabled host

available

available

not available

available

Gatekeeper/OPA policy availableavailableavailablenot available
Network policy

not available

availableavailablenot available
Hardened UiPath® service container images availableavailableavailableavailable
ArgoCD SSOavailable (LDAP only)

available

available

not available
mTLS for service communication

available

available

available

available

Migration options
Standalone Orchestrator to Automation Suite full migration availableavailableavailable

available

Standalone Orchestrator to Automation single tenant migration options availableavailableavailable

available

Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on AKS/EKS

available

available

available

not available

Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on OpenShift

available

not availablenot available

available

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