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Find out what to do before deploying Genesys Web Services and Applications.

Download the Helm charts

Genesys Web Services and Applications (GWS) in Genesys Multicloud CX private edition is made up of multiple containers and Helm charts. The pages in this "Configure and deploy" chapter walk you through how to deploy the following Helm charts:

  • GWS services (gws-services) - all the GWS components.
  • GWS ingress (gws-ingress) - provides internal and external access to GWS services. Internal ingress is used for cross-component communication inside the GWS deployment. It also can be used by other clients located inside the same Kubernetes cluster. External ingress provides access to GWS services to clients located outside the Kubernetes cluster. If you are deploying Genesys Web Services and Applications in a single namespace with other private edition services, then you do not need to deploy GWS ingress.

GWS also includes a Helm chart for Nginx (wwe-nginx) for Workspace Web Edition - see the Workspace Web Edition Private Edition Guide for details about how to deploy this chart.

See Helm charts and containers for Genesys Web Services and Applications for the Helm chart versions you must download for your release.

For information about downloading Helm charts from JFrog Edge, see Downloading your Genesys Multicloud CX containers.

Third-party prerequisites

Install the prerequisite dependencies listed in the Third-party services table before you deploy Genesys Web Services and Applications. See Software requirements for a full list of prerequisites and third-party services required by all Genesys Multicloud CX private edition services.

Third-party services
Name Version Purpose Notes
Elasticsearch 7.x Used for text searching and indexing. Deployed per service that needs Elasticsearch during runtime.GWS requires Elasticsearch 7.17+. You must configure additional options for Elasticsearch to support the Data Collector Service.
action.auto_create_index: false
  thread_pool.write.queue_size: -1

You can set up Elasticsearch as a shared or dedicated service.


Redis 6.x Used for caching. Only distributions of Redis that support Redis cluster mode are supported, however, some services may not support cluster mode.The Redis server must run in cluster mode. You can set up Redis as a shared or dedicated service.
PostgreSQL 11.x Relational database.GWS supports PostgreSQL 12.x. You can set up PostgreSQL as a shared or dedicated service.
Consul 1.13.x Service discovery, service mesh, and key/value store.GWS supports Consul 1.8. Consul can be installed either inside or outside the Kubernetes cluster. GWS pods require a Consul agent that is running at the Kubernetes node and GWS only communicates with this Consul agent. You must configure a connection to the Consul server in the local Consul agent.
Ingress controller HTTPS ingress controller.
HTTPS certificates - Let's Encrypt Use with cert-manager to provide free rotating TLS certificates for NGINX Ingress Controller. Note: Let's Encrypt is a suite-wide requirement if you choose an Ingress Controller that needs it.
HTTPS certificates - cert-manager Use with Let's Encrypt to provide free rotating TLS certificates for NGINX Ingress Controller.
Load balancer VPC ingress. For NGINX Ingress Controller, a single regional Google external network LB with a static IP and wildcard DNS entry will pass HTTPS traffic to NGINX Ingress Controller which will terminate SSL traffic and will be setup as part of the platform setup.
A container image registry and Helm chart repository Used for downloading Genesys containers and Helm charts into the customer's repository to support a CI/CD pipeline. You can use any Docker OCI compliant registry.
Command Line Interface The command line interface tools to log in and work with the Kubernetes clusters.

Storage requirements

GWS uses PostgreSQL to store tenant information, Redis to cache session data, and Elasticsearch to store monitored statistics for fast access. If you set up any of these services as dedicated services for GWS, they have the following minimal requirements:

PostgreSQL

  • CPU: 2
  • RAM: 8 GB
  • HDD: 50 GB

Redis

  • 2 nodes:
    • CPU: 2
    • RAM: 8 GB
    • HDD: 20 GB

Elasticsearch

  • 3 "master" nodes:
    • CPU: 2
    • RAM: 8 GB
    • HDD: 20 GB
  • 4 "data" nodes
    • CPU: 4
    • RAM: 16 GB
    • HDD: 20 GB

Network requirements

GWS ingress objects support Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.2 for a secure connection between Kubernetes cluster ingress and GWS ingress. TLS is disabled by default, but you can configure it for internal and external ingress by overriding the entryPoints.internal.ingress.tls and entryPoints.external.ingress.tls sections of the GWS ingress Helm chart.

For example:

entryPoints:
  external:
    ingress:
    tls:
      - secretName: gws-secret-ext
        hosts:
          - gws.genesys.com

In the example above:

  • secretName is the name of the Kubernetes secret that contains the certificate. The secret is a prerequisite and must be created before you deploy GWS ingress.
  • hosts is a list of the fully qualified domain names that should use the certificate. The list must be the same as the value configured for the entryPoints.external.ingress.hosts parameter.

Cookies

GWS components use cookies for following purposes:

  • identify HTTP/HTTPS user sessions
  • identify CometD user sessions
  • support session stickiness

Genesys dependencies

Genesys Web Services and Applications must be deployed after Genesys Authentication.

For a look at the high-level deployment order, see Order of services deployment in the Setting up Genesys Multicloud CX Private Edition guide.

Next steps

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