The following table provides a list of the supported operating systems and their versions.
On RHEL systems Akamas containers might need to be run in privileged mode depending on how Docker was installed on the system.
The following table provides a list of the required Software Packages (also referred to as Akamas dependencies) together with their versions.
The exact version of these prerequisites is listed in the following table:
Read more about how to set up Akamas dependencies.
To install and run Akamas it is recommended to create a dedicated user (usually "akamas"). The Akamas user is not required to be in the sudoers list but can be added to the docker (dockeroot) group so it can run docker and docker-compose commands.
Make sure that the Akamas user has the read, write, and execute permissions on /tmp. If your environment does not allow writing to the whole /tmp folder, please create a folder /tmp/build and assign read and write permission to the Akamas user on that folder.
Operating System
Version
Ubuntu Linux
20.04+
CentOS
8.6+
RedHat Enterprise Linux
8.6+
Software Package
Notes
Docker
Akamas is deployed as a set of containerized services running on Docker. During its operation, Akamas launches different containers so access to the docker socket with enough permissions to run the container is required.
Docker Compose
Akamas containerized services are managed via Docker Compose. Docker compose is usually already shipped with Docker starting from version 23.
AWS CLI
Akamas container images are published in a private Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and are automatically downloaded during the online installation procedure.
AWS CLI is required only during the installation phase if the server has internet access and can be skipped during an offline installation.
Software Package
Version
Docker
24+
Docker Compose
2.7.0+
AWS CLI
2.0.0+