Pre-requisites

Recommended Permissions and Experience

To successfully complete Sunbird ED installation, you need to have:

  • System administrator permissions on and all servers

  • Hands-on experience in administering and debugging Linux systems

  • Hands-on experience using Docker and Kubernetes to run containerised services

Note: Sunbird is tested only on cloud hosted Ubuntu servers. We do not provide any support for installing Sunbird on other operating systems.

Infra Requirements

  • Kubernetes Cluster[1.27.x] with 5 worker nodes each of 4 Core 16 GB RAM

  • Total 6 VM's are required each of 4 Core 16 GB RAM

  • Private GitHub repository to store ansible inventory

  • Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) with SSL

  • Object Storage with CORS enabled

  • Container registry - Docker Hub, Amazon ECR, Azure ACR etc.

  • Public IP

  • Google OAuth Credentials

Steps to create: https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-credentials#oauth-client-id

  • Google V3 ReCaptcha Credentials

Steps to create: Login to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin and create one for domain

  • Maxmind city database (free or paid)

  • Email service provider

  • All ports must be open for internal communication between the VM's/Servers provisioned for the installation

Note: If resources are isolated by subnets, then subnet-to-subnet communication needs to be enabled by security rules

  • Enable internet and outbound access from VMs.

Note: This is required to install dependent packages from the ubuntu package manager and other open source repositories

  • MSG91 sms service provider API Token (optional)

Note: This is required to get OTP's to registered phone number when user register or reset

  • YouTube API Token (optional)

Note: This is required to upload video content directly using youtube URL

  • Slack account and slack bot with API Token for monitoring alerts (optional)

Provisioning Servers

Before you start the installation process, ensure that you have the required infrastructure mentioned above is provisioned. Every component in SunbirdEd can scale horizontally / vertically by adding additional resources. Please find the mapping between server and the application components below.

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