- Overview
- Requirements
- Recommended: Deployment templates
- Q&A: Deployment templates
- Release notes
- GCP Marketplace deployment architecture
- Step 1: Preparing the GCP Marketplace deployment
- Step 2: Deploying Automation Suite to GCP Marketplace
- Step 3: Post-deployment steps
- Manual: Preparing the installation
- Manual: Preparing the installation
- Step 1: Configuring the OCI-compliant registry for offline installations
- Step 2: Configuring the external objectstore
- Step 3: Configuring High Availability Add-on
- Step 4: Configuring Microsoft SQL Server
- Step 5: Configuring the load balancer
- Step 6: Configuring the DNS
- Step 7: Configuring kernel and OS level settings
- Step 8: Configuring the disks
- Step 9: Configuring the node ports
- Step 10: Applying miscellaneous settings
- Step 12: Validating and installing the required RPM packages
- Step 13: Generating cluster_config.json
- Certificate configuration
- Database configuration
- External Objectstore configuration
- Pre-signed URL configuration
- External OCI-compliant registry configuration
- Disaster recovery: Active/Passive and Active/Active configurations
- High Availability Add-on configuration
- Orchestrator-specific configuration
- Insights-specific configuration
- Process Mining-specific configuration
- Document Understanding-specific configuration
- Automation Suite Robots-specific configuration
- Monitoring configuration
- Optional: Configuring the proxy server
- Optional: Enabling resilience to zonal failures in a multi-node HA-ready production cluster
- Optional: Passing custom resolv.conf
- Optional: Increasing fault tolerance
- install-uipath.sh parameters
- Adding a dedicated agent node with GPU support
- Adding a dedicated agent Node for Task Mining
- Connecting Task Mining application
- Adding a Dedicated Agent Node for Automation Suite Robots
- Step 15: Configuring the temporary Docker registry for offline installations
- Step 16: Validating the prerequisites for the installation
- Manual: Performing the installation
- Post-installation
- Cluster administration
- Managing products
- Getting Started with the Cluster Administration portal
- Migrating objectstore from persistent volume to raw disks
- Migrating from in-cluster to external High Availability Add-on
- Migrating data between objectstores
- Migrating in-cluster objectstore to external objectstore
- Switching to the secondary cluster manually in an Active/Passive setup
- Disaster Recovery: Performing post-installation operations
- Converting an existing installation to multi-site setup
- Guidelines on upgrading an Active/Passive or Active/Active deployment
- Guidelines on backing up and restoring an Active/Passive or Active/Active deployment
- Redirecting traffic for the unsupported services to the primary cluster
- Monitoring and alerting
- Migration and upgrade
- Step 1: Moving the Identity organization data from standalone to Automation Suite
- Step 2: Restoring the standalone product database
- Step 3: Backing up the platform database in Automation Suite
- Step 4: Merging organizations in Automation Suite
- Step 5: Updating the migrated product connection strings
- Step 6: Migrating standalone Orchestrator
- Step 7: Migrating standalone Insights
- Step 8: Deleting the default tenant
- B) Single tenant migration
- Migrating from Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on EKS/AKS
- Upgrading Automation Suite
- Downloading the installation packages and getting all the files on the first server node
- Retrieving the latest applied configuration from the cluster
- Updating the cluster configuration
- Configuring the OCI-compliant registry for offline installations
- Migrating to an external OCI-compliant registry
- Executing the upgrade
- Performing post-upgrade operations
- Product-specific configuration
- Best practices and maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- How to troubleshoot services during installation
- How to uninstall the cluster
- How to clean up offline artifacts to improve disk space
- How to clear Redis data
- How to enable Istio logging
- How to manually clean up logs
- How to clean up old logs stored in the sf-logs bundle
- How to disable streaming logs for AI Center
- How to debug failed Automation Suite installations
- How to delete images from the old installer after upgrade
- How to disable NIC checksum offloading
- How to upgrade from Automation Suite 2022.10.10 and 2022.4.11 to 2023.10.2
- How to manually set the ArgoCD log level to Info
- Unable to run an offline installation on RHEL 8.4 OS
- Error in downloading the bundle
- Offline installation fails because of missing binary
- Certificate issue in offline installation
- First installation fails during Longhorn setup
- SQL connection string validation error
- Prerequisite check for selinux iscsid module fails
- Azure disk not marked as SSD
- Failure after certificate update
- Antivirus causes installation issues
- Automation Suite not working after OS upgrade
- Automation Suite requires backlog_wait_time to be set to 0
- Volume unable to mount due to not being ready for workloads
- Cluster unhealthy after automated upgrade from 2021.10
- Upgrade fails due to unhealthy Ceph
- RKE2 not getting started due to space issue
- Volume unable to mount and remains in attach/detach loop state
- Upgrade fails due to classic objects in the Orchestrator database
- Ceph cluster found in a degraded state after side-by-side upgrade
- Unhealthy Insights component causes the migration to fail
- Service upgrade fails for Apps
- In-place upgrade timeouts
- Docker registry migration stuck in PVC deletion stage
- AI Center provisioning failure after upgrading to 2023.10
- Upgrade fails in offline environments
- Setting a timeout interval for the management portals
- Authentication not working after migration
- Kinit: Cannot find KDC for realm <AD Domain> while getting initial credentials
- Kinit: Keytab contains no suitable keys for *** while getting initial credentials
- GSSAPI operation failed due to invalid status code
- Alarm received for failed Kerberos-tgt-update job
- SSPI provider: Server not found in Kerberos database
- Login failed for AD user due to disabled account
- ArgoCD login failed
- Update the underlying directory connections
- Failure to get the sandbox image
- Pods not showing in ArgoCD UI
- Redis probe failure
- RKE2 server fails to start
- Secret not found in UiPath namespace
- ArgoCD goes into progressing state after first installation
- MongoDB pods in CrashLoopBackOff or pending PVC provisioning after deletion
- Unhealthy services after cluster restore or rollback
- Pods stuck in Init:0/X
- Missing Ceph-rook metrics from monitoring dashboards
- Running the diagnostics tool
- Using the Automation Suite Support Bundle Tool
- Exploring Logs
Step 1: Preparing the GCP Marketplace deployment
Before performing an Automation Suite GCP deployment, you must ensure you meet the requirements and plan accordingly.
To prevent data loss, ensure the infrastructure you use does not automatically delete cluster disks on cluster reboot or shutdown. If this capability is enabled, make sure to disable it.
By default, GCP supports only the latest RHEL 8 version. Moreover, it performs automatic updates that may lead to a minor OS version upgrade. As a consequence, you can fall out of the supported Automation Suite OS versions. To mitigate this we recommend using a custom image.
You must have access to a GCP project with the default service account enabled.
This project needs the following APIs enabled, and you must have permissions for all the operations the APIs imply:
- Compute Engine API
- Cloud DNS API
- Cloud SQL Admin API
- Secret Manager API
- Cloud Resource Manager API
- Service Networking API
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) API
To enable an API, take the following steps:
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Search for the API in the top search bar.
- On the Compute Engine API page, click Enable.
The service account responsible for the deployment must have the following permissions:
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Compute Network Admin - For resource deployments and peering between the SQL and the VPC. Private VPC connection.
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Cloud SQL Admin - Create SQL instance, associate IP.
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Compute Admin - Deploy compute resources.
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Project IAM Admin - Create IAM policy.
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DNS Administrator - Create DNS zone.
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Service Account User - The
.runAs
permission is needed to allow the installation scripts to use the VM’s identity. -
Service Account Admin - Create service account.
The deployment provisions a configurable number of VMs with configurable types. Additionally, the templates also deploy VMs needed for node registration traffic. Those VMs have a fixed instance type.
Each project has a quota for the number of cores anyone can provision for a specific region.
If the deployment requirements put you over this quota, the deployment would fail. To prevent this, make sure you have enough room in the quota for your Automation Suite deployment.
Make sure that the VM family region availability meets your requirements.
You can check what VM instances are available in a region at Regions and zones.
Ensure that the GPU you want to use and the region you are deploying satisfy these constraints and the instance type for the GPU nodes supports a GPU. As stated in the GCP documentation, GPUs are currently only supported with general-purpose N1 or accelerator-optimized A2 machine types.