Automation Suite on EKS/AKS overview

Automation Suite enables you to deploy the UiPath® business automation platform in your environment of your choice. Depending on your needs, you can deploy the platform on Linux servers (bare-metal or virtual machines) in your data center or public cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP), or on your Kubernetes clusters in Amazon Web Services (Elastic Kubernetes Service) or Microsoft Azure (Azure Kubernetes Service).

Automation Suite includes:

• All Server Products (except for any new products shipping in Automation Cloud first).

• All Shared Suite Capabilities that enable you to easily configure the integration with existing enterprise systems, such as AD, AAD, or SAML, across all products; a common experience is offered across the suite for the user, tenant, external applications, and license management.

• Common end-user portal.

This guide provides documentation for installing Automation Suite on your EKS or AKS clusters.

Key benefits

Deployment scenarios

You can deploy Automation Suite on EKS or AKS in online environment with or without a proxy.

Security and compliance

Automation Suite is pre-configured with optional OPA policies and network policies to follow the principles of the least privilege. In addition, to control the OPA policies, Automation Suite also bundles an optional Gatekeeper component.

Prerequisites

Before installing Automation Suite on EKS/AKS, you must ensure your cluster meets the infrastructure requirements.

Installation

UiPath® provides a the uipathctl CLI tool, which is optimized for Automation Suite on EKS/AKS operations, such as running prerequisite validations, installing on your EKS/AKS cluster, and upgrades.

Post-installation management

Automation Suite provides management operations via uipathctl, such as adding new products, updating certificates, configuring Automation Suite in maintenance mode, taking backups, and monitoring.

Upgrade and migration

This section provides more details on how to upgrade Automation Suite or your infrastructure underneath Automation Suite, and how to migrate from standalone products to Automation Suite.

For details, see Upgrade and .

Troubleshooting

You can run health checks and tests to help detect issues and whether they are in the infrastructure layer or within Automation Suite.

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.

User scenario/Feature	Embedded	Azure/AKS	Amazon/EKS
Service capabilities
Orchestrator	YES	YES	YES
AI Center	YES	YES	YES
AI Center with external orchestrator (standalone)	YES	NO	NO
Apps	YES	YES	YES
Action Center	YES	YES	YES
Automation Hub	YES	YES	YES
Automation Ops	YES	YES	YES
Data Service	YES	YES	YES
Document Understanding	YES	YES	YES
Insights	YES	YES	YES
Automation Suite Robots	YES	YES	YES
Process Mining	YES	YES	YES
Task Mining	YES	YES	YES
Test Manager	YES	YES	YES
Integration Service	NO	NO	NO
Communications mining	NO	NO	NO
Studio Web	NO	NO	NO
Architecture
Kubernetes	Rancher RKE2	AKS	EKS
Databases	MS SQL Note: Additional Microsoft SQL platforms, such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance, as well as Amazon Relational Database Service are also supported as long as the Microsoft SQL Server database engine meets the requirements.
Storage	Option 1: Embedded block storage (Longhorn) and Object Storage (Ceph) Option 2: Embedded block storage (Longhorn) and Object storage external to the cluster UiPath® provides the Longhorn and Ceph.	Object Storage: Azure Blob Filesystem: Azure Filesystem Block Storage: Azure Disks	Object Storage: AWS S3 Filesystem: AWS EFS Block Storage: AWS EBS
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
OPA	OSS Gatekeeper	OSS Gatekeeper	OSS Gatekeeper
Monitoring	Rancher provided Prometheus & Grafana	OSS Prometheus & Grafana	OSS Prometheus & Grafana
Caching	Embedded Redis with in the cluster and provided by UiPath®	Cloud Redis outside the cluster and managed by customer	Cloud Redis outside the cluster and managed by customer
Logging Aggregation	Rancher provided Fluend/Fluent-bit	OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit	OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit
Cert Manager	OSS Cert Manager	OSS Cert Manager	OSS Cert Manager
Deployment tool	OSS ArgoCD	OSS ArgoCD	OSS ArgoCD
Deployment scenario
Single Node (Non-production)	YES	NO	NO
Multi Node (HA)	YES (requires additional HAA license)	YES	YES
Online	YES	YES	YES
Offline	YES	YES	YES
Deployment method
Advanced CLI	install-uipath.sh	uipathctl	uipathctl
Interactive Installer	YES (InstallUipathAS.sh)	NO	NO
Cloud deployment templates	YES (AWS, Azure, GCP)	NO	NO
Marketplace	YES (AWS QS Only)	NO	NO
Installation
A la carte product selection	YES	YES	YES
Custom domain	YES	YES	YES
Custom certificates	YES	YES	YES
Hardware requirements validation	YES	YES	YES
Proxy configuration	YES	YES	YES
Optional OSS/fabric component	NO	YES	YES
Enterprise grade features
Disaster Recovery	YES (Active Passive deployment)	YES (Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)	YES (Multi-zone architecture without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)
Backup/restore	YES	YES	YES
Upgrade	YES	YES	YES
Troubleshooting
Support bundle	YES (support-bundle.sh)	YES (uipathctl)	YES (uipathctl)
Diagnostic tool	YES (diagnostics-report.sh)	YES (uipathctl)	YES (uipathctl)
Health Checks	NO	YES (uipathctl)	YES (uipathctl)
Security
FIPS enabled host	YES	YES	NO
Gatekeeper/OPA policy	YES	YES	YES
Network policy	NO	YES	YES
Hardened Uipath® service container images	YES	YES	YES
ArgoCD SSO	YES (LDAP only)	NO	NO
mTLS for service communication	YES	YES	YES
Migration options
Standalone Orchestrator to Automation Suite full migration	YES	YES	YES
Standalone Orchestrator to Automation single tenant migration options	YES	YES	YES
Automation Suite embedded to AS on AKS/EKS	YES	YES	YES

Evaluation guide

Requirements and installation

Details	Instructions
Requirements and installation instructions for Automation Suite.	Automation Suite requirements Automation Suite installation

Platform evaluation

Details	Instructions
Complete an initial platform configuration.	Automation Suite Configuration checklist
Connect your first robot	Connecting Attended Robots
Monitor the stack, troubleshoot issues, create alerts, and view dashboards from a centralized location.	Troubleshooting tools Using the monitoring stack

Product evaluation

The following instructions take you to the corresponding product guides.

Product	Evaluation checklist
Orchestrator	Orchestrator configuration checklist
Automation Suite Robots	Automation Suite Robots configuration checklist
Automation Hub	Automation Hub configuration checklist
Automation Ops	Automation Ops configuration checklist
Test Manager	Test Manager configuration checklist
AI Center	AI Center configuration checklist
Action Center	Action Center configuration checklist
Task Mining	Task Mining configuration checklist
Apps	Apps configuration checklist
Insights	Insights configuration checklist
Data Service	Data Service configuration checklist
Process Mining	Process Mining configuration checklist
Document Understanding	Document Understanding configuration checklist