System requirements

Before installing Puppet Remediate, check to ensure your system meets these requirements.

Supported operating systems

You can install Remediate on the following operating systems.

Operating System Versions System Prerequisite
CentOS 7 or higher
  • Architecture: x64
  • Minimum Memory: 8GB
  • Minimum Storage: 20GB
  • Minimum CPUs: 2

Docker CE 17.04.0-ce or higher, or Docker EE 17.06.1-ee or higher for Linux.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Debian 8 or higher
Ubuntu 14.04 or higher
Windows 10

Docker for Windows.

When you install Remediate on a virtual machine, you must enable nested virtualization. For more information, see the documentation for the hypervisor you are using.

Docker requirements

Both Docker CE and Docker EE editions include the option to run Kubernetes as a single-node cluster on a local machine using port 8080. Remediate requires that no other application use ports 8080 and 8443. Note that Docker swarm mode requires additional ports.

If using Docker for Windows, the virtual machine must be configured with 8 GB of memory.

To prevent running out of storage, configure log rotation by editing the log-driver and log-opts parameters within the daemon configuration file that is located here:

  • Linux: /etc/docker/daemon.json

  • Windows: %programdata%\docker\config\daemon.json

To deploy the Docker Compose file, you need to install Docker Compose version 1.24.1.

Restriction: Because Remediate shares a network namespace with the host, shared user namespaces cannot be enabled in Docker for use with Remediate.

Discoverable operating systems

Discover resources that run on these operating systems.

Operating system Versions Prerequisite
Enterprise Linux:

  • CentOS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

5 or higher For the account Remediate authenticates with, configure bash as the login shell.
Debian 7 or higher
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
Ubuntu 14.04 or higher
Windows Server 2012 or higher WinRM is enabled and PowerShell 3.0 is installed.

System configuration

Before installing Remediate, make sure that your network is properly configured, and that the time is correctly set and managed on each server. These are the port requirements for a Remediate installation.

Port Description
  • 443 (HTTPS)
 Required to install or update to the latest version of Remediate from:
  • storage.googleapis.com
  • gcr.io
  • 8443 (HTTPS)
 Required to view the Remediate dashboards.
  • 22
 Required for SSH authentication on discovered Linux hosts.
  • 5986 (HTTPS)
  • 5985 (HTTP)
 Required for WinRM authentication on discovered Windows hosts.
Important: Remediate requires all interfaces to allow traffic to the loopback network (127.0.0.0/8).

Hardware requirements

Remediate requires:
Storage 20.0 GB
Memory 8.0 GB
CPUs 2

Supported browsers

The Remediate user interface is supported on the latest versions of the following browsers:

  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Edge