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Automation Suite on EKS/AKS Installation Guide

Last updated Feb 13, 2025

Automation Suite 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 in an online or offline 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, you must make sure that your cluster meets the infrastructure requirements.

Installation

UiPath® provides the uipathctl CLI tool, which handles operations such as running prerequisite validations, installing Automation Suite on your cluster, and performing 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/FeatureAutomation Suite on LinuxAutomation Suite on AKSAutomation Suite on EKS

Service capabilities

Orchestrator

available

availableavailable
AI Centeravailableavailableavailable
AI Center with external orchestrator (standalone)available

not available

not available

Appsavailableavailableavailable
Action Centeravailableavailableavailable
Automation Hubavailableavailableavailable
Automation Opsavailableavailableavailable
Data Serviceavailableavailableavailable
Document Understandingavailableavailableavailable
Insightsavailableavailableavailable
Automation Suite Robotsavailableavailableavailable
Process Miningavailableavailableavailable
Task Miningavailableavailableavailable
Test Manageravailableavailableavailable
Integration Service

not available

not availablenot available
Communications miningnot availablenot availablenot available
Studio Webnot availablenot availablenot available

Architecture

KubernetesRancher RKE2AKSEKS
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: Object Storage (Ceph)

  • Option 2: Object storage external to the cluster

UiPath® provides 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)

available

not available

not available

Multi Node (HA)

available (requires additional HAA license)

available

available

Online

available

availableavailable
Offlineavailable

available

available

Deployment method
Advanced CLIinstall-uipath.sh

uipathctl

uipathctl
Interactive Installer
available (InstallUiPathAS.sh)

not available

not available

Cloud deployment templates

available (AWS, Azure, GCP)

not available

not available

Marketplace

available (AWS QS Only)

not available

not available

Installation

A la carte product selection

available

availableavailable
Custom domainavailableavailableavailable
Custom certificatesavailableavailableavailable
Hardware requirements validationavailableavailableavailable
Proxy configurationavailableavailableavailable
Optional OSS/fabric component

not available

availableavailable
Enterprise grade features
Disaster Recovery

available (Active Passive deployment)

not available

(Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)

not available

(Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)

Backup/restoreavailableavailableavailable
Upgrade

available

availableavailable
Troubleshooting
Support bundleavailable
(support-bundle.sh)
available (uipathctl)
available (uipathctl)
Diagnostic toolavailable
(diagnostics-report.sh)
available
(uipathctl)
available (uipathctl)
Health Checks

not available

available (uipathctl) available (uipathctl)
Security
FIPS enabled host

available

available

not available

Gatekeeper/OPA policyavailableavailableavailable
Network policy

not available

availableavailable
Hardened UiPath® service container imagesavailableavailableavailable
ArgoCD SSO

available (LDAP only)

available

available

mTLS for service communication

available

available

available

Migration options
Standalone Orchestrator to Automation Suite full migrationavailableavailableavailable
Standalone Orchestrator to Automation single tenant migration optionsavailableavailableavailable
Automation Suite embedded to AS on AKS/EKS

available

available

available

Evaluation guide

Requirements and installation

Details

Instructions

Requirements and installation instructions for Automation Suite.

Platform evaluation

Details

Instructions

Complete an initial platform configuration.

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