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First checklist for IT infrastructure

To engage in the discussion with a typical IT team for the installation of TruBudget, the following questions are relevant:

  • Which infrastructure is preferred in the existing IT landscape? Is it an installation on bare metal servers, on virtual machines or is there a container runtime (e.g. via docker) available?

  • Are there any specific networking requirements to host an application that is available to the users and connects through the internet (e.g. DMZ)

  • Would TruBudget be run in a cloud environment and if so which one (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google cloud platform)

  • How are SSL certificate provisioned to ensure an https connection

  • What are existing firewalls to connect TruBudget to other nodes and what is the effort to update them?

  • TruBudget provides pre-cooked operations scripts to start the environment, would these be used or are there existing standards to run software?

  • Which of the services would be used in addition to the core TruBudget service for the user interface, the API and the blockchain/data? In particular there are optional services like:

    • Excel export service to download data in Excel format
    • eMail notification service to send out email notification via SMTP
    • User directory integration service to connect existing user directories

  • Is an integration of TruBudget with existing systems planned via API?

  • How many environments are the standard for new software, e.g. test and production environments are separated?

  • How are updates to TruBudget managed, e.g. what are the release cycles and the effort to update?

Using this list, a first high level view on the effort from the IT department for the installation can be derived.