Production Environment

You can install various components of the Seldon Enterprise Platform modularly into an existing Kubernetes cluster to take advantage of Seldon's integrations.

Note: Seldon recommends installing Seldon Core 2 with Seldon Enterprise Platform. For more information about installing Seldon Core 1, see Seldon Core Documentation

Cluster requirements

This table lists the minimum resource requirements for clusters running the full Seldon Enterprise Platform ecosystem. Your actual resource needs may vary depending on usage.

Cloud provider	Requirements	Notes
GCP	3 x e2-standard-8	This is 24 vCPUs and 96GB RAM. Details.
AWS	6 x t2.xlarge	This is 24 vCPUs and 96GB RAM. Details.
Azure	3 x D8as or D8ads	This is 24 vCPUs and 96GB RAM. Details.

Components compatability matrix

Component	Supported Versions	Integration Level
Seldon Core 2	minor versions of 2.8 or later	Required
Ingress controller (Istio)	minor versions of Istio 1.17 or later	Required
PostgreSQL	version 10 - version 15	Required
Prometheus	minor versions of 2.42 or later	Required
OIDC provider (Keycloak)	minor versions of 17.x or later	Required
Elasticsearch	version 6.x - version 7.17	Recommended
ArgoCD	version 3.35.x or later	Recommended
Argo Workflows	version 3.4.0 - version <3.6.0	Optional
Fluentd or equivalent ELK log collection	minor versions of 5.5 or later	Optional
Knative (Eventing, Serving)	minor versions of 1.10 or later	Optional

Managed Kafka

Seldon recommends a managed Kafka for production installation. Some of the managed Kafka solutions that integrate with Seldon Enterprise Platform and Seldon Core 2 components are:

• Confluent Cloud (security: SASL/PLAIN)

• Confluent Cloud (security: SASL/OAUTHBEARER)

• Amazon MSK (security: mTLS)

• Amazon MSK (security: SASL/SCRAM)

• Azure Event Hub (security: SASL/PLAIN)

Recommended installation sequence

1. Seldon Core 2

2. Kafka Integration

3. Seldon Enterprise Platform

4. Ingress Controller

5. PostgreSQL - Model Catalog

6. Prometheus - Monitoring and Alerting

7. Elasticsearch