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 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 Migration options.

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	Automation Suite on Linux	Automation Suite on AKS	Automation Suite on EKS
Service capabilities
Orchestrator	✅	✅	✅
AI Center	✅	✅	✅
AI Center with external orchestrator (standalone)	✅	❌	❌
Apps	✅	✅	✅
Action Center	✅	✅	✅
Automation Hub	✅	✅	✅
Automation Ops	✅	✅	✅
Data Service	✅	✅	✅
Document Understanding	✅	✅	✅
Insights	✅	✅	✅
Automation Suite Robots	✅	✅	✅
Process Mining	✅	✅	✅
Task Mining	✅	✅	✅
Test Manager	✅	✅	✅
Integration Service	❌	❌	❌
Communications mining	❌	❌	❌
Studio Web	❌	❌	❌
Architecture
Kubernetes	Rancher RKE2	AKS	EKS
Databases	MS SQL 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)	✅	❌	❌
Multi Node (HA)	✅ (requires additional HAA license)	✅	✅
Online	✅	✅	✅
Offline	✅	❌	❌
Deployment method
Advanced CLI	install-uipath.sh	uipathctl	uipathctl
Interactive Installer	✅ (InstallUipathAS.sh)	❌	❌
Cloud deployment templates	✅ (AWS, Azure, GCP)	❌	❌
Marketplace	✅ (AWS QS Only)	❌	❌
Installation
A la carte product selection	✅	✅	✅
Custom domain	✅	✅	✅
Custom certificates	✅	✅	✅
Hardware requirements validation	✅	✅	✅
Proxy configuration	✅	✅	✅
Optional OSS/fabric component	❌	✅	✅
Enterprise grade features
Disaster Recovery	✅ (Active Passive deployment)	✅ (Multi-zone architecture for UiPath services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)	✅ (Multi-zone architecture without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)
Backup/restore	✅	✅	✅
Upgrade	✅	✅	✅
Troubleshooting
Support bundle	✅ (support-bundle.sh)	❌	❌
Diagnostic tool	✅ (diagnostics-report.sh)	✅ (uipathctl)	✅ (uipathctl)
Health Checks	❌	✅ (uipathctl)	✅ (uipathctl)
Security
FIPS enabled host	✅	❌	❌
Gatekeeper/OPA policy	✅	✅	✅
Network policy	❌	✅	✅
Hardened Uipath service container images	✅	✅	✅
ArgoCD SSO	✅ (LDAP only)	✅	✅
mTLS for service communication	✅	✅	✅
Migration options
Standalone Orchestrator to Automation Suite full migration	✅	✅	✅
Standalone Orchestrator to Automation single tenant migration options	✅	✅	✅
Automation Suite embedded to AS on AKS/EKS	❌	❌	❌

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