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title: Deployment checklist
description: Use the following checklist to ensure key considerations are covered for your 2022.11.12 deployment:
component: autonomous-identity
version: 2022.11.12
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# Deployment checklist

Use the following checklist to ensure key considerations are covered for your 2022.11.12 deployment:

**Deployment Checklist**

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| ------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Check               | Requirement                          | Details                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Access              |                                      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| \[ ]                | Remote Access                        | The Ping Autonomous Identity Team is a global team. To support the needs of client teams, remote access to all servers is required for deployment and support of product.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| \[ ]                | Service Account                      | The service account must have the ability to run passwordless sudo commands. The deployer will not without this ability.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| \[ ]                | File Transfer Process                | The Ping Autonomous Identity Team require access to a file transfer process, which lets specified packages be transferred from the vendor to the client infrastructure.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Service Account     |                                      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| \[ ]                | Service Account Group                | The service account group must be the same as the service account name. For example, if the service account name is `srv-autoid`, that user must be in the group `srv-autoid`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| \[ ]                | Ping Autonomous Identity Team Access | Ping Autonomous Identity team members must be able to switch to this user after logging in to the servers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| \[ ]                | SSH Ability                          | The service account must be able to passwordless SSH between all Ping Autonomous Identity servers; preferred method is RSA SSH key authentication.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| \[ ]                | Default Shell                        | The default shell of the service account must be Bash.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| \[ ]                | Directory Ownership                  | Ownership of the following directories must be given to the Service Account.- /data or applicable name of the shared mount (Docker and Spark servers)

- /opt/autoid (all servers)

- /tmp (R, W, E required + NOEXEC flag must not be present)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| \[ ]                | Docker Commands                      | The service account must have permissions to run Docker commands. Note that Docker should NOT need to be installed as a prerequisite; this will be installed by deployment team.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Networking/Internet |                                      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| \[ ]                | Access to the Internet               | If available, the front-end servers downloads the required Docker images from the official Ping Autonomous Identity image repository.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| \[ ]                | SSL Certificates                     | If SSL is being implemented, SSL certificates are required for the UI, Cassandra or MongoDB nodes, and Spark nodes. These certificates can be generated using one of the following four options:- Self-signed certificates for all 3 components

- Valid certificate for the UI and self-signed certificates for Cassandra, MongoDB, and Spark nodes (self-signed certs only used in server-server traffic)

- Valid and separate certificates for the UI, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Spark

- \*.domainname.com certificate (wildcard) |
| \[ ]                | Ports Open (Internal)                | All internal ports specified in the Networking section of the Environment Specifications need to be opened for the specified servers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| \[ ]                | Ports Open (external browser)        | The following ports must be accessible from a web browser within the client network:- 443 (Front-end)For a list of Ping Autonomous Identity ports, refer to [Autonomous Identity Ports](../release-notes/chap-before-you-install.html#sec-ports).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Required Packages   |                                      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| \[ ]                | Dependencies                         | The following packages must be installed on specified servers as prerequisites:- Analytics Servers:

  * OpenJDK version "11.0.16"

  * Python 3.10.9 with symlinks to Python 3 (sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3.10 /usr/bin/python3)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Other               |                                      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| \[ ]                | Infrastructure Support POC           | A point-of-contact (POC) with sufficient access to the infrastructure is required. The POC can support in case of infrastructure blockers arise (e.g., proxy, account access, or port issues).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| \[ ]                | SELinux                              | SELinux must be disabled on the Docker boxes. The package "container-selinux" must be present (this can be done as part of the root scripts described in the "Root Access" category).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
