Software requirements

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This topic is part of the manual Setting up Genesys Multicloud CX Private Edition for version Current of Genesys Multicloud CX Private Edition.

Prerequisite software and third-party dependencies required for the Genesys Multicloud CX private edition environment.

This article covers the following sections:

You must first set up the private edition environment with the supported Kubernetes distribution, Helm, contact center components, and so on. In the Kubernetes clusters, deploy the third-party dependencies such as Consul, Redis, Kafka, and so on, that are necessary for the Genesys Multicloud CX services to function. Once you have the private edition environment with the required third-party dependencies deployed, you can proceed with deploying the Genesys Multicloud CX services.

Private edition general prerequisites

The private edition general prerequisites are:

  • Domain Name System (DNS)
  • Helm 3.0+
  • Ingress Controller
    • NGINX Ingress Controller (Google Kubernetes Engine)
  • JFrog Edge Artifactory account
  • Kubernetes 1.25
  • Kubernetes secrets
  • Session Border Controller (SBC)
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) - optional, but recommended.

Licensing requirements

Genesys Multicloud CX private edition services (release 100.x and above) do not require any technical licenses or activation files for deployment or operation in any environment that contains only Genesys software. However, software or services provided by vendors other than Genesys might require licenses or activation files. Any licenses or activation files required for third-party software or services that are resold by Genesys and/or are embedded in Genesys services will be issued separately according to the terms outlined in your contract and services order. It is your responsibility to acquire licenses for software or services that you obtain from other vendors.

Third-party dependencies for Genesys Multicloud CX services

Genesys Multicloud CX services require specific third-party dependencies for its functioning, for example, Redis (an in-memory caching software). You can install these third-party dependencies in a different namespace or outside the cluster provided the namespace has direct network access to these services.
Important
Deploying and maintaining the third-party dependencies is your responsibility. For more information on your responsibilities and how Genesys supports the deployment process, see Understanding responsibilities.

See the table below for details about the Genesys supported third-party dependencies.

Name Version Purpose Mandatory? Private edition services
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. Yes All Genesys services
An SMTP relay Facilitates email communications in an environment where GCXI reports or voicemails are sent as emails to contact center personnel. Genesys recommends PostFix, but you can use any SMTP relay that supports standard mail libraries. No
Command Line Interface The command line interface tools to log in and work with the Kubernetes clusters. No
HTTPS certificates - cert-manager Use with Let's Encrypt to provide free rotating TLS certificates for NGINX Ingress Controller. Optional
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. No
Ingress controller HTTPS ingress controller. Yes
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.

Yes
Object storage Persistent or shared data storage, such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage. No
Kafka 2.x Message bus. Yes
Keda 2.0 Custom metrics for scaling. Use of Keda or HPA is configurable through Helm charts. No
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. Yes
Consul 1.13.x Service discovery, service mesh, and key/value store. Yes
Elasticsearch 7.x Used for text searching and indexing. Deployed per service that needs Elasticsearch during runtime. Yes
MS SQL Server 2016 or later Relational database. Required only for GVP.
PostgreSQL 11.x Relational database. Yes

For information on troubleshooting third-party services, refer to Troubleshooting Third-Party Services in our public repository.

Permissions

Security context parameters in the Helm charts specify the users authorized to access the pods and containers for the respective services. By default, the Helm charts specify the user, group, and file-service group IDs as 500:500:500.

Consul

  • Consul and Consul Service Mesh are required.
  • Consul requires privileged containers; so the cluster-administrator must have permissions to install mutating hooks, configure kube-dns, and access Kubernetes APIs.

In an early implementation, private edition required the use of a custom SCC called genesys-restricted to control permissions associated with the genesys user (500) specified by the services. The genesys-restricted SCC has now been deprecated.

Arbitrary UIDs

To use arbitrary UIDs, override the Helm chart values so that no specific IDs are defined for users and groups.

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