Managed PostgreSQL and Neo4j

For production deployment of Deepfence Management Console, we recommend using cloud/vendor managed PostgreSQL and Neo4j services.

Neo4j

Please use the following settings to configure the Neo4j AuraDB Professional / Enterprise service

Option	Recommended Value
Memory	8GB
CPU	2 CPU
Storage	16GB

In docker-compose.yml, set the values for postgresql accordingly.

x-service-variables: &common-creds
    DEEPFENCE_NEO4J_USER: neo4j
    DEEPFENCE_NEO4J_PASSWORD: <password>
    NEO4J_AUTH: neo4j/<password>
    DEEPFENCE_NEO4J_BOLT_PORT: 7687
    DEEPFENCE_NEO4J_HOST: abcdefgh.databases.neo4j.io

PostgreSQL

AWS RDS

Please use the following settings to configure the PostgreSQL service

Option	Recommended Value
Engine	PostgreSQL
Version	13.7-R1 or above
Availability	Single DB instance / Multi-AZ DB instance
Credentials	Set username and password
DB instance class	db.m6i.large / db.t3.medium or better
Storage type	Provisioned IOPS SSD
Allocated storage	>= 100
Provisioned IOPS	>= 3000
Public access	No (provide access only to management console nodes)
Database authentication	Password authentication
Initial database name	deepfence

In docker-compose.yml, set the values for postgresql accordingly.

x-service-variables: &common-creds
    DEEPFENCE_POSTGRES_USER_DB_USER: postgres
    DEEPFENCE_POSTGRES_USER_DB_PASSWORD: <password>
    DEEPFENCE_POSTGRES_USER_DB_HOST: pg-db-1.aaaaaa.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com
    DEEPFENCE_POSTGRES_USER_DB_NAME: deepfence
    DEEPFENCE_POSTGRES_USER_DB_PORT: 5432
    DEEPFENCE_POSTGRES_USER_DB_SSLMODE: disable