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Automation Suite on EKS/AKS installation guide

Cross-deployment model feature comparison

Feature parity and differences across Automation Suite deployment models, including EKS/AKS, OpenShift, and other supported environments.

We aim to provide feature parity between our Automation Suite deployment models. However, there will always be some differences you should be aware of.

If you need to deploy Automation Suite in different supported environments, refer to the following guides:

User scenario/Feature Automation Suite on Linux Automation Suite on AKS Automation Suite on EKS Automation Suite on OpenShift

Service capabilities

Orchestrator ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
AI Center ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
AI Center with external orchestrator (standalone) ✅ ❌ ❌ ❌
Apps ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Action Center ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Automation Hub ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Automation Ops ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Data Service ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Document Understanding ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Insights ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Integration Service ❌ ✅ ✅ ❌
Automation Suite Robots ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Process Mining ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Task Mining ✅ ✅ ✅ ❌
Test Manager ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Communications mining ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Studio Web ❌ ✅ ✅ ❌

Architecture

Kubernetes Rancher RKE2 AKS EKS OpenShift
Databases
  • MS SQL

    Additional Microsoft SQL platforms, such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance, as well as Amazon Relational Database Service are also supported as long as the Microsoft SQL Server database engine meets the requirements.

  • PostgreSQL for Process Mining Airflow database

    Automation Suite 2024.10.3 or higher.

Storage

  • Option 1: Object Storage (Ceph)

  • Option 2: Object storage external to the cluster

UiPath® provides Ceph.

  • Object Storage: Azure Blob

  • Filesystem: Azure Filesystem

  • Block Storage: Azure Disks

  • Object Storage: AWS S3

  • Filesystem: AWS EFS

  • Block Storage: AWS EBS

  • Objectstore - Azure Blob, AWS S3, S3-compatible objectstore
  • File System - StorageClass for workloads that do not require replication
  • Block storage - StorageClass with replication for the persistent volume

Service Mesh and Routing

OSS Istio Service Mesh

Routing via envoy ingress gateway

OSS Istio Service Mesh

Routing via WASM plugin

OSS Istio Service Mesh

Routing via WASM plugin

OpenShift Service Mesh

Routing via WASM plugin

OPA

OSS Gatekeeper

OSS Gatekeeper

OSS Gatekeeper

❌

Monitoring

OSS Prometheus and Grafana

OSS Prometheus and Grafana

OSS Prometheus and Grafana

❌

Caching

Embedded Redis within the cluster and provided by UiPath®

Cloud Redis outside the cluster and managed by customer

Cloud Redis outside the cluster and managed by customer

  • External Redis Enterprise

  • OpenShift Redis Enterprise Operator managed by customer

Logging Aggregation

OSS Fluentd/Fluent-bit

OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit

OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit

❌

Cert Manager

OSS Cert Manager

OSS Cert Manager

OSS Cert Manager

OpenShift Cert Manager Operator

Deployment tool

OSS ArgoCD

OSS ArgoCD

OSS ArgoCD

OpenShift GitOps Operator

Deployment scenario

Single Node (Non-production)

✅

❌

❌

❌

Multi Node (HA)

✅ (requires additional HAA license)

✅

✅

✅

Online

✅

✅ ✅ ✅
Offline ✅

✅

✅

✅
Deployment method
Advanced CLI uipathctl

uipathctl

uipathctl uipathctl
Interactive Installer ✅ ( InstallUiPathAS.sh )

❌

❌

❌

GUI-based wizard

❌

✅

GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard .

✅

GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard .

✅

GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, see Generating the configuration file using a wizard .

Marketplace

✅ (AWS QS Only)

❌

❌

❌

Installation

A la carte product selection

✅

✅ ✅ ✅
Custom domain ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Custom certificates ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Hardware requirements validation ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Proxy configuration ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Optional OSS/fabric component

❌

✅ ✅

❌

Enterprise grade features
Disaster Recovery

✅ (Active/Passive and Active/Active deployments)

❌

(Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)

✅(Active/Passive deployments) ✅(Active/Passive deployments)
Backup/restore ✅ ✅ ✅

You must use your own backup and restore solution.

Upgrade

✅

✅ ✅ ✅
Troubleshooting
Support bundle ✅( uipathctl ) ✅ ( uipathctl ) ✅ ( uipathctl ) ✅ ( uipathctl )
Diagnostic tool ✅( uipathctl ) ✅( uipathctl ) ✅ ( uipathctl ) ✅ ( uipathctl )
Health Checks

❌

✅ ( uipathctl ) ✅ ( uipathctl ) ✅ ( uipathctl )
Security
FIPS enabled host

✅

✅

✅

✅

Gatekeeper/OPA policy ✅ ✅ ✅ ❌
Network policy ✅ ✅ ✅ ❌
Hardened UiPath® service container images ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
ArgoCD SSO ✅ (LDAP only)

✅

✅

❌
mTLS for service communication

✅

✅

✅

✅

Migration options
Standalone Orchestrator to Automation Suite full migration ✅ ✅ ✅

✅

Standalone Orchestrator to Automation single tenant migration options ✅ ✅ ✅

✅

Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on AKS/EKS

✅

✅

✅

N/A

Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on OpenShift

✅

N/A N/A

✅

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