System requirements

Minimum system requirements for proof of concept environment

Table 1. Minimum system requirements for proof of concept
Platform Docker and Docker Compose
Number of Platform Nodes N/A
Operating System See the Docker platform documentation for supported operating systems
Processor 4 CPU Cores
Memory 12 GBs RAM
Storage 3 GBs for Rabbit MQ and all HCL™ Accelerate Docker containers, 4 GBs during the installation process
Network Gigabit (1000) Ethernet with low-latency to the database

Minimum system requirements for production environment

Table 2. Minimum system requirements for production environment
Platform Docker EE, OpenShift, Kubernetes
Number of Platform Nodes 3
Operating System See your Docker platform documentation for supported operating systems
Processor 4 CPU Cores
Memory 12 GBs of RAM
Storage 8 GBs for MongoDB with continued growth over extended usage, 3 GBs for RabbitMQ and all HCL™ Accelerate Docker containers, 4 GBs during the installation process
Network Gigabit (1000) Ethernet with low-latency to the database

Databases

Table 3. Databases
Name Version Environments Future Releases
MongoDB Enterprise Edition 3.6 Docker Compose, Docker EE, Kubernetes, OpenShift Including all fix packs
4.0, 4.2 Docker EE, Kubernetes, OpenShift

Docker Platforms

Table 4. Docker Platforms
Name Version Future Releases
Docker Enterprise Edition 18.03 Including all fix packs
IBM Cloud Private (ICP) 3.1.0 Including all fix packs
OpenShift 3.11, 4.1, and 4.2 Including all fix packs
Kubernetes 1.9.3 Including all fix packs

Supporting Docker tools

Table 5. Supporting Docker tools
Name Version Future Release
Docker Community Edition 1 18.03 Including all fix packs
Docker Compose 1 2.1 Including all fix packs
Helm 2 3 Including all future versions, releases, and fix packs
Note:
  1. These tools can run HCL™ Accelerate without the use of a Docker platform. However, this approach is not supported in production environments.
  2. Required prerequisite for Kubernetes

Integration sources

Table 6. Integration sources
Name Version Future Releases
Atlassian JIRA 6.4 Including all future versions, releases, and fix packs
HCL Launch 7.1.0.0 Including all future versions, releases, and fix packs
HCL™ Launch 7.0.0.0 Including all future versions, releases, and fix packs
Jenkins 2.7.1 Including all future versions, releases, and fix packs
ServiceNow Helsinki Including all future versions, releases, and fix packs
Note: New integrations are added frequently. Consult the HCL™ Accelerate plugin website for the latest details.

Web browsers

Table 7. Web browsers
Name Version Future Releases
Google Chrome Latest version Including all future versions, releases, and fix packs
Microsoft Edge Latest version Including all future versions, releases, and fix packs
Mozilla Firefox Latest version Including all future versions, releases, and fix packs