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Prerequisites Summary


The CHAI™ and its ecosystem is expected to be as per the following diagram. The major components of the ecosystem are,

  • CHAI™ Enterprise Server: This is a server/VM where CHAI™ Enterprise Software is installed, within the customer’s premise. The software is provided by CloudHedge for download via a secured URL

  • Linux Build Box: This is a Linux server/VM with docker installed on it. During project this machine is used for creating and testing application containers

  • Windows Build Box: This is a Windows server/VM with docker installed on it. During project this machine is used for creating and testing application containers

  • Source Application Servers: These are source servers/VM’s where applications are currently hosted. This is recommended to be a non-production environment.


Network Diagram

Network diagram


Hardware Requirement

Machine OS CPU/Disk Disk Space
CHAI™ Appliance Ubuntu 16+ / RHEL 7.6+, 8.x Atleast 4 cores and 16 GB RAM 50 GB for /opt and 100 GB for /var
Linux Build Box Ubuntu 16+ / RHEL 7.6+, 8.x Atleast 4 cores and 16 GB RAM 200GB disk space [docker partition ( typically /var/lib/docker/ )]
Windows Build Box Windows Server (2019/2022) Atleast 4 cores and 16 GB RAM 100GB disk space [C:\ drive]


Software Requirement (Docker and Docker-compose required on all boxes are similar)

Docker Docker compose
Ubuntu 17.3+ 1.23.1+
RHEL 1.13.1+ 1.23.1+
  1. CHAI™ Enterprise Server:
    Installation steps are documented at Link

  2. Linux Build Box:
    Installation steps are documented at Link

  3. Windows Build Box:
    Installation steps are documented at Link

You & Access Requirement

  1. CHAI™ Enterprise Server:
    You account with privilege access
  2. Linux Build Box:
    You account with privilege access
    Detailed access requirements documented at Link
  3. Windows Build Box:
    You with local admin access
    UAC should be turned off.
    Detailed access requirements documented at Link
  4. Source Application Servers:
    Linux: You account with privilege access documented at Link
    Windows: You with local admin access documented at Link

Port Configuration Matrix

Port matrix