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Self-managed

Overview

In self-managed deployment, you install the Privacera software in your cloud provider VPC. Privacera has a microservices architecture and is deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. The docker images are hosted in Privacera docker registry. If you are running in an air gap (no Internet access) network, you will download the docker images and host them in your docker registry.

Installation process

The installation process is described using following diagram - 

stateDiagram-v2
    state "Self Managed\nCloud Prerequisites\nSetup, Configuration" as SelfManaged
    state "Configure\nDiscovery" as Discovery
    state "Configure\nEncryption" as Encryption
    state "Configure\nDataServer" as DataServer
    state "Configure\nConnectors" as Connectors
    state "Configure\nUsersync" as Usersync
    state "Run Privacera Manager" as PrivaceraManager
    state "Run Privacera Manager" as PrivaceraManager2
    state "Verify Base Installation" as Verify
    state "Verify Final Installation" as Verify2
    state "Your Data Plane VPC" as vpc

    state vpc {
        SelfManaged --> PrivaceraManager
        PrivaceraManager --> Verify
        Verify --> Connectors
        Verify --> DataServer
        Verify --> Discovery
        Verify --> Encryption
        Verify --> Usersync
        Connectors --> PrivaceraManager2
        DataServer --> PrivaceraManager2
        Discovery --> PrivaceraManager2
        Encryption --> PrivaceraManager2
        Usersync --> PrivaceraManager2
        PrivaceraManager2 --> Verify2   
    }
The installation process is divided into the following steps:

  1. Prerequisites which includes creating and configuring cloud resources in your cloud provider VPC.
  2. Setup - installing Privacera Manager software that is used to install the Privacera software.
  3. Configuration - basic configuration for Privacera Manager. This is done by editing YAML files in Privacera Manager.
  4. Privacara Manager- Using Privacera Manager to generate helm charts, apply the helm charts and do post-installation steps.
  5. Verify the installation.

After the base installation is done, you can install the access data connectors. You can also install additional optional components such as Privacera Discovery, Privacera Encryption and Privacera DataServer. You can install Privacera Usersync to pull the users and groups from your enterprise identity store into Privacera.

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