Cloud On Premise
Centiloc provides you with the opportunity to host and maintain your own data platform, leveraging the same services as those offered by Centiloc’s Geocore public cloud HAAS solution. You’ll have access to the complete range of Geocore features, with the flexibility to scale your resources as needed.
The Geocore Cloud platform is built upon OpenSource and CNCF technologies. These foundational components can be manually installed and configured according to your specific requirements or automatically deployed using our OnPrem installation.
Geocore is a Kubernetes-based solution composed of:
- Infrastructure elements: These are fundamental building blocks that enable micro-services to interact with one another (Redis, Kafka), facilitate data storage (PostgreSQL), etc…
- Centiloc micro-services: These micro-services are the operational backbone of Geocore, ensuring its smooth functionality.
Geocore exposes MQTT, NTP, the API, and Centui. MQTT and NTP use direct NodePorts. API and Centui traffic goes through the Contour Envoy gRPC-Web proxy, exposed through either NodePort, LoadBalancer, or TLS.
See Service Exposure before choosing the network configuration for an installation.
To install Geocore OnPremise, a minimum of Helm v3 is required. In addition, the successful deployment of Geocore OnPremise hinges on having the following infrastructure components in place:
| Infrastructure Element | Minimum Version Required |
|---|---|
| PostgreSQL Database | v9 |
| Kafka | 3.5.1 |
| Redis | 6.2.7 |
Infrastructure elementsIf you encounter challenges implementing these infrastructure elements (Redis, Kafka, PostgreSQL), our OnPrem solution offers the capability to deploy them within your Kubernetes cluster. For detailed information on these options, please consult the Geocore chart documentation.
kubectlGeocore does not require kubectl, but you will not be able to perform some of the examples in our docs without it. To installkubectl, see the upstream kubectl installation docs.
The OnPremise solution is versatile and can be adapted to different deployment scenarios. Depending on your specific needs, you can choose from the following setups :
If you require a lightweight setup on a single machine, we recommend k0s. The Single-node k0s Setup guide provides instructions for installing Geocore on an Ubuntu server with the following minimum configuration:
- 4 Core CPU
- 8GB RAM
For production environments with larger workloads, we recommend deploying the solution on a multi-node Kubernetes cluster. You have the flexibility to choose a Kubernetes distribution that you are familiar with. A standard three-node cluster configuration typically includes:
- 4 Core CPU
- 16GB RAM