Prerequisites for Deploying the Protegrity Anonymization API

The Protegrity Anonymization API is provided as a Docker image. Prepare your system to run commands for processing the basic Kubernetes services for setting up the Protegrity Anonymization API. Additionally, ensure that the following prerequisites are met to install the Protegrity Anonymization REST API in your Cloud environment.

• The user should be well versed with using container orchestration service like Kubernetes in different cloud services.

• Access as an Admin user is available for the cloud service used.

• A minimum of 2 nodes with the following minimum configuration:

  • RAM: 16 GB
  • CPU: 8 core
  • Hard Disk: Unlimited

• Verify the contents of the package after extracting the ANON-API_DEB-ALL-64_x86-64_Docker-ALL-64_1.4.0.x.tgz and ANON-SDK_ALL-ALL-64_x86-64_PY-3-64_1.4.0.x.tgz files from the .tgz archive.

  • ANON-REST-API_1.4.0.x.tgz – Installation package for the Protegrity Anonymization API. This package contains the following files:

  Files	Description
  ANON-API_1.4.0.x.tar.gz	This image is used to create the Protegrity Anonymization API Docker Container.
  cluster-aws.yaml	This is the template configuration file for creating the cluster in the AWS Cloud environment.
  ANON-API_HELM_1.4.0.x.tgz	This contains the Helm chart, which is used to deploy the Protegrity Anonymization API application on the Kubernetes cluster.
  Anon_logs.sh	This is the script for extracting the logs from the Protegrity Anonymization API container.
  README.txt	This readme contains information about the Protegrity Anonymization API.
  Contractual.csv	This contains the list of libraries used in the Protegrity Anonymization API.
  docker/docker-compose.yaml	This file is used to deploy the API in Docker containers.
  docker/nginx.conf	This file is used to configure nginx for Docker.
  docker/cert/cert.pem	This is the default self-signed certificate for the Docker container.
  docker/cert/key.pem	This is the key for the Docker container.
  aws-terraform/main.tf	This template file is used to deploy the API in AWS using Terraform.
  aws-terraform/vars.tf	This file is used for specifying the cluster configuration information.
  rbac/kubconfigcmd.txt	This file contains the commands for working with RBAC.
  rbac/anon-service-account.yaml	This template file contains the RBAC namespace configuration information.
  rbac/anon-role-and-rolebinding.yaml	This template file contains the RBAC configuration information for the roles and role binding.
  rbac/anon-clusterrolebinding.yaml	This file contains the RBAC configuration information for binding the roles to the cluster.
  rbac/kubconfigcmd.txt	This file contains the RBAC commands for retrieving tokens and assigning access to the service account.

• ANON-NOTEBOOK_1.4.0.x.x.tgz - Docker image for the Protegrity Anonymization API Notebook workstation. Do not extract or modify the contents of this file.

• ANON-SDK_ALL-ALL-64_x86-64_PY-3-64_1.4.0.x.tgz - Contains the Anonsdk-wheel file that is used to install anonsdk in the Python environment.

• If required, then a REST client to access the REST services, such as Postman.