Self-Hosting Requirements

AnswerRocket Self-Hosting Requirements Document
Virtual Machine (VM) Requirements
Minimum Requirements (Applies to all cloud providers):

• Operating System: Any Linux distribution that supports Docker
• vCPUs: 4
• RAM: 16GB
• Disk Space: 30GB

Cloud-Specific Instance Sizes & Disk Types

Server Access Requirements

• AnswerRocket DevOps SSH (or other terminal user) access to /opt/answerrocket
• Inbound access for AnswerRocket DevOps over SSH
• This inbound access may be provided via VPN, VDI, or other private tunnel provided by the client

Software Requirements

• Latest Docker and Docker Compose
• AWS CLI (Required for pulling images & build artifacts during initial installation)
• LLM Key and endpoint
• Valid SSL certificate files (privkey.pem, fullchain.pem)

Networking Requirements

• Outbound access to:
  • S3 (for pulling resources)
  • AnswerRocket ACR (container registry for pulling images)
  • The LLM endpoint of choice (for AI functionality)
• Inbound access from:
  • HTTPS/443 for web application usage by AnswerRocket developers and client users
  • SSH/22 (for pulling resources) for use by AnswerRocket DevOps

Other Requirements

• SAML setup to allow client users to login via SSO

• SMTP server to allow for password resets for non-SSO users

• Max requires a database connection and supports a variety of databases.

• Commonly used databases include:

  • PostgreSQL

  • Snowflake

  • Databricks

  • BigQuery

  • Redshift

    Please reach out to your AnswerRocket account executive for further details on database compatibility.