Requirements

Immuta comprises three core services: Secure, Discover, and Detect. These services rely on PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch to store their states, a caching layer, and Temporal for job execution. The illustration below shows the relationships among these services.

The Immuta Enterprise Helm chart (IEHC) does not include the deployment of PostgreSQL or Elasticsearch, so you must deploy them separately.

Although Immuta recommends using Elasticsearch because it supports several new Immuta features and services, you can deploy Immuta without Elasticsearch. The table below outlines the Immuta features supported with and without Elasticsearch and the dependencies you must deploy and manage yourself.

	Immuta with Elasticsearch	Immuta without Elasticsearch
Dependencies	Externalized PostgreSQL Elasticsearch / OpenShift	Externalized PostgreSQL
Immuta Detect	✅	❌
Audit of Immuta and data platform events	✅	❌
Legacy audit	❌	❌
Immuta Monitors	✅	❌
Identification	✅	✅

For information about legacy databases and services no longer enabled in the recommended deployment of Immuta, see the Legacy databases section.

Version requirements

Kubernetes versions

• Kubernetes 1.29 - 1.32

Metadata database (PostgreSQL)

PostgreSQL incompatibilities

Immuta is not compatible with PostgreSQL abstraction layers, such as Amazon Aurora.

• PostgreSQL 15.0 or newer

• The pgcrypto and btree_gin extensions must be enabled

Elasticsearch

• Elasticsearch v7 API or newer

• OpenSearch compatible with Elasticsearch v7 API or newer

OpenSearch user

The user provided during the install must have the following permissions:

• cluster:monitor/health

• indices:data/write/bulk*

• indices:data/write/bulk

• indices:data/read/search

• indices:admin/exists

• indices:admin/create

• indices:admin/delete

• indices:admin/settings/update

• indices:admin/get

• indices:data/write/delete/byquery

• indices:data/write/index

• indices:admin/mapping/put

• indices:data/write/bulk

• indices:data/write/bulk*

Follow OpenSearch documentation to create the user and add permissions, or see the Setting up OpenSearch permissions knowledge base article.

Cache (Redis/Memcached)

Built-in cache

The IEHC manages its own Memcached deployment inside the cluster. The key-value cache can optionally be externalized post installation.

• Redis 7.0 or newer

• Memcached 1.6 or newer

Temporal

Built-in Temporal server

The IEHC deploys a Temporal server and its requisite components. However, you may choose to use your own Temporal instance.

• Temporal 1.24.2 or newer

Infrastructure recommendations

Kubernetes distribution	Ingress	External metadata database	External Elasticsearch
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	AWS Load Balancer Controller	Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL	Amazon OpenSearch
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller	Azure Database for PostgreSQL	Elastic Cloud on Azure
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)	GKE Ingress Controller	Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL	Elastic Cloud on Google Cloud
Red Hat OpenShift	OpenShift Ingress Operator

Legacy databases

Some legacy databases are no longer available when deploying Immuta using the recommended configuration of the IEHC. See the Enable the legacy query engine guide to enable support for these databases.