Overview

Each member of the Identiq network installs their own hosted network node, called the
Identiq “Edge”. This is always privately hosted by the network member, either physically on
their premises or in a member’s cloud environment owned and managed by the network
member.

Edge Network Diagram

Specification

The Identiq Edge is based on Kubernetes. It can be installed on cloud-based managed
Kubernetes or managed Kubernetes in an on-premise environment. The exact specification
will be defined as part of the system and data discovery processes.

Kubernetes distro and version - Identiq supports Kubernetes 1.19 and above using AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE, or premise installation using RKE.
The cluster can be either a dedicated cluster (Identiq provides a Terraform module for provisioning), or an existing shared cluster.
The cluster exposes two endpoints (ingresses).
The following tables contain the VM specs needed for the Identiq Edge, with the exact number based on the data volume at the Edge.

Public Cloud

Component	VM spec (AWS)	VM spec (Azure)	VM spec (GCP)	# Machines	Comments
DB (Managed)	db.m6i.large	GeneralPurpose 2/1024	db-custom-2-8192	1	Normalized Database
Cache (Redis) /Elasticache	r6i.large - r6i.12xlarge	Standard_E4s_v4	n2-custom-2-19200-ext	1	Based on the data volume
Core Identiq workloads	c6i.2xlarge	Standard_F16s_v2	c3-standard-8	3	Based on the data volume

Private Cloud

Component	VM spec	# Machines	Comments
DB (Postgres)	2 vCPU/8 GiB	1	Required storage class
Cache (Redis)	8 vCPU/64-256 GiB	1	Based on the data volume
Core Identiq workloads	8 vCPU/16 GiB	5	Based on the data volume

vCPU must be an Intel/AMD x86 chip