Server (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
• Inbound access for AnswerRocket DevOps over SSH (Port 22)
  • 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)
  • These domains must be whitelisted:

*.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
*.sts.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
*.s3.amazonaws.com
*.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
*.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
*.docker.io
production.cloudflare.docker.com
*.cloudflare.com
*.cloudflaressl.com

• 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

Optional: Load Balancer Configuration

If using a load balancer (e.g., Azure Application Gateway/WAF or AWS ALB etc..) with SSL termination set it up as follows:

• HTTPS listener on port 443 with the certificate (SNI enabled).
• TLS policy allowing TLS 1.2+.
• Backend pool target: the application VM on port 80.
• Health probe: HTTP 80 path / or /apps/login.
• HTTP settings:
  • Preserve Host header.
  • Send X-Forwarded-Proto: https and X-Forwarded-For.
• Network/security:
  • Allow the LB (security group/subnet) to reach the VM on port 80.
  • No requirement to expose 443 on the VM when the LB terminates SSL.

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.