Administrator’s Guide

Documentation on the installation, deployment and administration of Wire server components.

Warning

If you already installed Wire by using poetry, please refer to the old version of the installation guide.

• How to install wire-server
  • How to plan an installation
  • Version requirements
  • Dependencies on operator’s machine
  • (demo) How to install kubernetes
  • (demo) How to install wire-server using Helm
  • (production) Introduction
  • (production) How to install kubernetes and databases
  • (production) How to configure AWS services
  • (production) How to install wire-server using Helm
  • (production) How to monitor wire-server
  • (production) How to see centralized logs for wire-server
  • (production) Other configuration options
  • Server and team feature settings
  • Messaging Layer Security (MLS)
  • Web app settings
  • Installing Conference Calling 2.0 (aka SFT)
  • Installing Restund
  • Configure Wire-Server for Federation
  • Configure TLS ciphers
  • How to install and set up Legal Hold
  • Managing authentication with ansible
  • Using tinc
  • Troubleshooting during installation
• How to verify your wire-server installation
  • Verifying NTP
  • Verifying data retention for logs don't exceed 72 hours
• How to administrate servers after successful installation
  • Kubernetes
  • Backup and disaster recovery
  • Cassandra
  • Elasticsearch
  • Etcd
  • General - Linux
  • Minio
  • Operational procedures
  • Restund (TURN)
  • Investigative tasks (e.g. searching for users as server admin)
• How to connect the public wire clients to your wire-server installation
  • How to associate a wire client to a custom backend using a deep link
  • How to use custom root certificates with wire clients
  • How to use a custom backend with the desktop client