Introduction¶

WARNING¶

It is strongly recommended to have followed and completed the demo installation Installing wire-server (demo) components using helm before continuing with this page. The demo installation is simpler, and already makes you aware of a few things you need (TLS certs, DNS, a VM, …).

NOTE¶

All required dependencies for doing an installation can be found here Dependencies on operator’s machine.

A production installation consists of several parts:

Part 1 - you’re on your own here, and need to create a set of VMs as detailed in Production installation (persistent data, high-availability)

Part 2 (Installing kubernetes and databases on VMs with ansible) deals with installing components directly on a set of virtual machines, such as kubernetes itself, as well as databases. It makes use of ansible to achieve that.

Part 3 (Installing wire-server (production) components using Helm) is similar to the demo installation, and uses the tool helm to install software on top of kubernetes.

Part 4 (Infrastructure configuration options) details other possible configuration options and settings to fit your needs.

What will be installed by following these parts?¶

• highly-available and persistent databases (cassandra, elasticsearch)
• kubernetes
• restund (audio/video calling) servers ( see also Restund (TURN) servers)
• wire-server (API)
• user accounts, authentication, conversations
• assets handling (images, files, …)
• notifications over websocket
• single-sign-on with SAML
• wire-webapp
• fully functioning web client (like https://app.wire.com)
• wire-account-pages
• user account management (a few pages relating to e.g. password reset)

What will not be installed?¶

• notifications over native push notification via FCM/APNS

What will not be installed by default?¶

• 3rd party proxying - requires accounts with third-party providers
• team-settings page for team management (including invitations, requires access to a private repository - get in touch with us for access)

Getting support¶

Get in touch.

Next steps for high-available production installation¶

Your next step will be part 2, Installing kubernetes and databases on VMs with ansible