Before you begin

Limitations and assumptions

Digital Channels for private edition has the following limitations:

Supports only a single-region model of deployment.
Social media requires additional components that are not included in Digital Channels.

Digital Channels in Genesys Multicloud CX private edition includes the following containers:

The service also includes a Helm chart, which you must deploy to install all the containers for Digital Channels:

See Helm charts and containers for Digital Channels for the Helm chart version you must download for your release.

To download the Helm chart, navigate to the nexus folder in the JFrog repository. For information about how to download the Helm charts, see Downloading your Genesys Multicloud CX containers.

Install the prerequisite dependencies listed in the Third-party services table before you deploy Digital Channels.

Third-party services
Name	Version	Purpose	Notes
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.	Digital Channels supports Redis deployed in either cluster (TLS) or non-cluster (non-TLS) mode.
PostgreSQL	11.x	Relational database.	No support for enforced SSL.
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.

Digital Channels uses PostgreSQL and Redis to store all data.

For general network requirements, review the information on the suite-level Network settings page.

Digital Channels has dependencies on the following Genesys services:

For detailed information about the correct order of services deployment, see Order of services deployment.