- Overview
- Requirements
- Pre-installation
- Installation
- Post-installation
- Migration and upgrade
- Upgrading Automation Suite
- Migrating standalone products to Automation Suite
- Step 1: Restoring the standalone product database
- Step 2: Updating the schema of the restored product database
- Step 3: Moving the Identity organization data from standalone to Automation Suite
- Step 4: Backing up the platform database in Automation Suite
- Step 5: Merging organizations in Automation Suite
- Step 6: Updating the migrated product connection strings
- Step 7: Migrating standalone Orchestrator
- Step 8: Migrating standalone Insights
- Step 9: Deleting the default tenant
- Performing a single tenant migration
- Migrating between Automation Suite clusters
- Migrating from Automation Suite on EKS/AKS to Automation Suite on OpenShift
- Monitoring and alerting
- Cluster administration
- Performing database maintenance
- Configuring the FQDN post-installation
- Forwarding logs to external tools
- Switching to the secondary cluster manually in an Active/Passive setup
- Disaster Recovery: Performing post-installation operations
- Converting an existing installation to multi-site setup
- Guidelines on upgrading an Active/Passive deployment
- Guidelines on backing up and restoring an Active/Passive deployment
- Product-specific configuration
- Troubleshooting
Automation Suite on EKS/AKS installation guide
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/Feature | Automation Suite on Linux | Automation Suite on AKS | Automation Suite on EKS | Automation Suite on OpenShift |
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Service capabilities | ||||
| Orchestrator | ||||
| AI Center | ||||
| AI Center with external orchestrator (standalone) | ||||
| Apps | ||||
| Action Center | ||||
| Automation Hub | ||||
| Automation Ops | ||||
| Data Service | ||||
| Document Understanding | ||||
| Insights | ||||
| Integration Service | ||||
| Automation Suite Robots | ||||
| Process Mining | ||||
| Task Mining | ||||
| Test Manager | ||||
| Communications mining | ||||
| Studio Web | ||||
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Architecture | ||||
| Kubernetes | Rancher RKE2 | AKS | EKS | OpenShift |
| Databases |
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Storage |
UiPath® provides Ceph. |
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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 |
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OPA |
OSS Gatekeeper |
OSS Gatekeeper |
OSS Gatekeeper |
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Monitoring |
Rancher provided Prometheus and Grafana |
OSS Prometheus and Grafana |
OSS Prometheus and Grafana |
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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 |
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Logging Aggregation |
Rancher provided Fluend/Fluent-bit |
OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit |
OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit |
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Cert Manager |
OSS Cert Manager |
OSS Cert Manager |
OSS Cert Manager |
OpenShift Cert Manager Operator |
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Deployment tool |
OSS ArgoCD |
OSS ArgoCD |
OSS ArgoCD |
OpenShift GitOps Operator |
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Deployment scenario | ||||
| Single Node (Non-production) |
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| Multi Node (HA) |
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| Online |
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| Offline |
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| Deployment method | ||||
| Advanced CLI | uipathctl |
| uipathctl | uipathctl |
| Interactive Installer |
InstallUiPathAS.sh)
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| GUI-based wizard |
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GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard. |
GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard. |
GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard. |
| Marketplace |
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Installation | ||||
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A la carte product selection |
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| Custom domain | ||||
| Custom certificates | ||||
| Hardware requirements validation | ||||
| Proxy configuration | ||||
| Optional OSS/fabric component |
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| Enterprise grade features | ||||
| Disaster Recovery |
| (Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.) | (Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.) | (Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.) |
| Backup/restore |
You must use your own backup and restore solution. | |||
| Upgrade |
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| Troubleshooting | ||||
| Support bundle | (
support-bundle.sh)
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uipathctl)
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uipathctl)
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uipathctl)
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| Diagnostic tool | (
diagnostics-report.sh)
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uipathctl)
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uipathctl)
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uipathctl)
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| Health Checks |
| uipathctl)
| uipathctl)
| uipathctl)
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| Security | ||||
| FIPS enabled host |
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| Gatekeeper/OPA policy | ||||
| Network policy |
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| Hardened UiPath® service container images | ||||
| ArgoCD SSO |
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| mTLS for service communication |
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| Migration options | ||||
| Standalone Orchestrator to Automation Suite full migration |
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| Standalone Orchestrator to Automation single tenant migration options |
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| Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on AKS/EKS |
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| Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on OpenShift |
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