Red Hat (RHEL / CentOS)

Getting Started

1. clone the tyk-ansible repositry

$ git clone https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk-ansible

2. cd into the directory

$ cd tyk-ansible

3. Run initialisation script to initialise environment

$ sh scripts/init.sh

4. Modify hosts.yml file to update ssh variables to your server(s). You can learn more about the hosts file here

5. Run ansible-playbook to install the following:

• Redis
• MongoDB or PostgreSQL
• Tyk Dashboard
• Tyk Gateway
• Tyk Pump

$ ansible-playbook playbook.yaml -t tyk-pro -t redis -t `mongodb` or `pgsql`

You can choose to not install Redis, MongoDB or PostgreSQL by removing the -t redis or -t mongodb or -t pgsql However Redis and MongoDB or PostgreSQL are a requirement and need to be installed for the Tyk Pro installation to run.

Supported Distributions

Variables

• vars/tyk.yaml

• vars/redis.yaml

Read more about Redis configuration here.

• vars/mongodb.yaml

Read more about MongoDB configuration here.

• vars/pgsql.yaml

Read more about PostgreSQL configuration here.

Getting Started

[mongodb-org-4.0]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/$releasever/mongodb-org/4.0/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.0.asc

sudo yum install -y mongodb-org

# Optionally ensure that MongoDB will start following a system reboot
sudo systemctl enable mongod
# start MongoDB server
sudo systemctl start mongod

sudo dnf install -y https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-8-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm

sudo dnf -qy module disable postgresql

sudo dnf install -y postgresql13-server

# Initialize database
sudo /usr/pgsql-13/bin/postgresql-13-setup initdb
# Optionally ensure that PostgreSQL will start following a system reboot
sudo systemctl enable postgresql-13
# start PostgreSQL server
sudo systemctl start postgresql-13

sudo -u postgres createuser --interactive

sudo -u postgres createdb tyk

sudo adduser tyk

sudo -u tyk psql

ALTER ROLE tyk with PASSWORD '123456';

sudo -u tyk createdb tyk_analytics

Install EPEL

EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a free, community based repository project from Fedora which provides high quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL, CentOS, and Scientific Linux. EPEL isn’t a part of RHEL/CentOS but it is designed for major Linux distributions. In our case we need it for Redis, run this command to get it. Full instructions available here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F:

sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install -y epel-release
sudo yum update

Install Redis

sudo yum install -y redis

Install Tyk Self-Managed on Red Hat (RHEL) / CentOS

Installing Tyk on RHEL is very straightforward using our YUM repositories, follow the guides and tutorials in this section to have Tyk up and running in no time.

The suggested order would be to install Tyk Dashboard, then Tyk Pump and then Tyk Gateway for a full stack.

• Dashboard
• Pump
• Gateway