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Creating Kyvos resources for AWS wizard-based deployment with Kyvos Native

Applies to: Kyvos Enterprise  Kyvos Cloud (SaaS on AWS) Kyvos AWS Marketplace

Kyvos Azure Marketplace   Kyvos GCP Marketplace Kyvos Single Node Installation (Kyvos SNI)


To create Kyvos resources for creating an AWS CloudFormation template for use in automated deployment, perform the following steps.

  1. To create resources for installing Kyvos services like BI Server and Query Engine on the AWS environment, select the I want to create resources option on the Kyvos Installer page.

  2. Click CREATE RESOURCES. This displays the Create Resources dialog box.

  3. Here, select the services for which you want to create resources and provide information as:

Resources will be created only for selected services. If you have pre-created resources for any of the services, you can uncheck them and configure them while installing Kyvos.

Area

Parameter/Field

Remarks/Description

Area

Parameter/Field

Remarks/Description

Use Graviton Instances

 

Select this option to deploy the Kyvos Services (like BI Server, Query Engines, Kyvos Manager on Graviton instances

EC2 instance(s) for BI Server

Number of Node(s)

Provide the number of EC2 instances that you want to create for BI Server nodes.

Instance Type

Select the EC2 instance type to be used for BI Server nodes.

Installation Disk

Select the type and size of the installation disk to be used for BI Server nodes.

EC2 instance(s) for Query Engine

Number of Node(s)

Provide the number of EC2 instances that you want to create for query engine nodes.

Instance Type

Select the EC2 instance type to be used for query engine nodes.

Installation Disk

Select the type and size of the installation disk to be used for query engine nodes.

EBS Volume

Select the number and size of the disk to be used for query engine nodes.

NOTE: Installation disk size must be 100 GB and the cuboid replication disk size must be in the multiplier of 50 or 100.

Disk Type

Select the disk type to be used as EBS Volume.

Web portal high availability 

 

Select to enable Kyvos web portal high availability.

If you select this, you need to provide the following:

  • Number of nodes

  • Instance Type

  • Subnet for Load Balancer - select Public or Private.

NOTE: To use the Web portal high availability, you must select the EC2 instance for Kyvos Manager checkbox.

EC2 instance for Kyvos Manager 

Instance Type

Clear the check box for wizard-based installation.

Deploy as Tenant

When using a multi-tenant environment, you can use the Deploy as Tenant checkbox to define a tenant.

NOTE: This is displayed only for multi-tenant environment.

Repository 

Select one of the following repository types from the Repository list.

  • Bundled Postgres: To select Postgres as a repository for Kyvos Manager.

  • Create New RDS: To create a new external repository for Kyvos Manager.

  • Existing RDS: To use the existing RDS of Kyvos Manager.

Repository Instance Type

Select the size of the instance type from the  Repository Instance Type. 

Repository 

Instance Type

Select this option and specify the instance type to create a PostgreSQL-based repository using the Amazon RDS. Otherwise, the pre-bundled PostgreSQL-based Kyvos repository will be used.

Output S3 Storage 

Bucket Name Prefix

Select this option and specify the bucket name prefix to create an S3 storage bucket for Kyvos output.

Compute Cluster

Compute Cluster Type

Select the Kyvos Native option.
The Kyvos Native Type list is displayed. Select one of the following options:

  • Shared Query Engines

  • Kubernetes (K8S)

NOTE: From Kyvos 2024.9 onwards, you can create a new Kubernetes cluster or use an existing cluster.

Use custom image

 

Select this option to use a custom image of your environment for deploying the Kyvos cluster. Custom images can be used to bootstrap deployment tasks like preloading applications, application configurations, and other configurations. 

You will have to provide the following information  at the time of deploying the cluster through the CloudFormation.

  • AmiDefaultUserName: Enter the AMI default logged in Linux user.

  • AmiId: Enter the AMI ID to be used for launching Kyvos Instances.

NOTE: To use your custom image, templates named oe _custom.json, qe_custom.json, km_custom.json, and  base_custom.json must be available at the $KYVOS_MANAGER_HOME/cloud/aws/templates/ location. 

  1. Click NEXT. The Review and Download Template dialog box is displayed with details of all the settings that you selected.

  2. Review all the settings, and click the BACK button if you want to make any changes.

  3. To continue, click the DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE button to download the CloudFormation template.

  4. Click the Open CloudFormation Console link to access the AWS CloudFormation console to upload this template to your AWS environment to create resources. 

  5. Log in to your AWS Console, with the user having sufficient rights as mentioned in the prerequisites.

  6. Click Create Stack (With New Resources), and enter details as:

Configuration

Parameter

Description/Remarks

Configuration

Parameter

Description/Remarks

Security Configurations

Select the name of the Key Pair to be used with EC2 instances

A key pair consisting of a public key (stored by AWS), and a private key file (stored by the user). Together, they allow you to connect to your instance securely.

Enter the SSH Private Key text

Provide the text of your SSH key. To get this, open your .pem file in edit mode, and copy the complete text.

S3 Configurations

Enter name of the S3 bucket for storing Kyvos semantic models

Enter the name of your existing bucket, if you selected False above. If you select True, Kyvos will create a bucket with this name. Ensure that the bucket is not already in use.

NOTE: See the AWS rules for naming buckets. Additionally, Kyvos does not allow . (dot) to be used for Bucket Name. The cluster may fail to deploy if you do not meet these requirements.

Network Configurations

VPC

Select the VPC in which EC2 instances will be launched.

NOTE: If you have created your VPC using the NAT Gateway template or the Internet Gateway template, select that VPC here.

Subnet

Select the Subnet to be attached to EC2 instances.

NOTE: In the case of Kyvos Web Portal HA (High Availability) or an RDS repository, you must select at least two subnets from different Availability Zones. Otherwise, you have to select only one subnet.

Availability Zone

Select the Availability Zone for the selected Subnet.

Refer to the list of Supported AWS Availability Zones.

IAM Roles Configurations 

Enter the name of the IAM Role that will be attached to all the Kyvos EC2 instances   

If blank, the role will be created automatically.  

Enter the name of the IAM Role that will be attached to all the Lambda functions   

If blank, the role will be created automatically.  

RDS Configurations 

Create a new subnet group for RDS? 

Select True to create a new subnet group for RDS.

Enter the name of existing Subnet group 

If creating a new subnet group for RDS is false, enter the name of the existing subnet group.

Specify whether the database instance is a multiple Availability Zone deployment

Select True to specify the database instance is a multiple availability zone deployment.  

Choose the version of RDS which needs to be launched

Enter the RDS version to be launched. 

Kyvos Configurations

Enter the Access key 

Access key to access the Kyvos bundle. Contact us if you haven't received it yet.

Enter the Secret key 

The secret key to access the Kyvos bundle. Contact us if you haven't received it yet.

Kyvos Work Directory 

Enter the work directory path to be used by Kyvos.

Enable Public IP for Kyvos Web Portal

Select true to enable Public IP for the Kyvos Web portal, else select the  false option.

NOTE: If you created your VPC using the Internet Gateway template, select true here. This will ensure that the Kyvos Web Server machine is accessible from your computer network. In this case, you will not need to configure Bastion host or load balancer for the Kyvos Web portal.

Kyvos License Information 

Enter the temporary Kyvos license key provided in your onboarding email. Copy the content of the license file here.

Enable Environment validation

Select true to validate the environment information that you provided for where the Kyvos cluster needs to be deployed. 

If you select false, the deployment will continue without validation.

Show hostname for cluster deployment 

Select true to use the hostname for cluster deployment.

PostgresPassword

Provide the password used for Postgres.

Kyvos Credit Load Information

Enter a valid Kyvos credit load key.

Kyvos Shared Credit Information Existing Repository

Enter the endpoint and port of the Shared Credit Information Repository.  

NOTE: You MUST add a semicolon after providing the endpoint and specify the port. For example, endpoint: port

Kyvos Credit Information Existing Secret 

Enter the secret name used for Shared Credit Information Repository. 

SecretName 

Enter the name of your existing Secret Manager. If blank, a new Secret Manager will be created automatically.

Allowed IP Range  

Provide the range of IP addresses allowed to access Kyvos Instances. Use 0.0.0.0/0 to allow all users access.  

PublicSubnets 

For deployments with Web portal high availability, if you selected a public subnet while creating the template, please select two public subnets.

AMI Configurations 

 

Enter the AMI default logged in Linux user 

Each Linux instance launches with a default Linux system user account. For more details, refer to AWS documentation.

(Displayed only if you selected the Custom Image option at the time of creating the template)

Enter the AMI ID to be used for launching Kyvos Instances 

 Provide the AMI ID.

  1. To proceed, click Create Stack to create the resources.

  2. Now go back to the Kyvos Manager, and select the I have all the resources option to complete installation.

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