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Privacera Platform system requirements for Azure

Prerequisites for installing Privacera Manager on Azure

These prerequisites are only applicable when you are deploying to Azure Cloud.

Privacera Manager needs to be installed on a virtual machine. This virtual machine, along with your service account, must, initially, have sufficient privileges to allow it to download additional Privacera Platform required and optional components.

  • Create an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) as follows:

  • Ubuntu installed (18.04.5 LTS preferable)

Deployment Type: Docker

Follow this section only if the services are deployed as Docker containers.

Install Docker and Docker compose on Privacera Platform

  1. Log on to your Privacera host as azureuser or a user with 'sudo' privileges..

  2. Install Docker on the VM.

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install docker.io -y  
    sudo service docker start  
    sudo usermod -a -G docker azureuser  
    exit
    
  3. Reattach to the VM (SSH to VM as azureuser).

  4. Confirm docker installation Download Docker-compose.

    #confirm docker installation  
    docker info  
    DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION="1.23.2"
    sudo  curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/${DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION}/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose  
    sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose