Red Hat (RHEL / CentOS)

Supported Distributions

Install and Configure Dependencies

Redis

Tyk Gateway has a dependency on Redis. Follow the steps provided by Red Hat to make the installation of Redis, conducting a search for the correct version and distribution.

Storage Database

Tyk Dashboard has a dependency on a storage database that can be PostgreSQL or MongoDB.

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

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

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

You can install Tyk on RHEL or CentOS using our YUM repositories. Follow the guides and tutorials in this section to have Tyk up and running in no time.

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

• Dashboard
• Pump
• Gateway

Supported Distributions

Requirements

Ansible - required for running the commands below.

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.

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.