System Requirements

Reveal Enterprise is a cloud-native platform built to run on Kubernetes, providing a modern, scalable foundation for deployment across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. The requirements here define the minimum and recommended infrastructure you should provision to operate Reveal Enterprise effectively.

These system requirements are intended for platform engineers, IT operations, and deployment architects who deploy and maintain the Reveal environment.  

Key Components

• Kubernetes Cluster

  Kubernetes is the foundation of the Reveal Enterprise platform. It orchestrates containerized services such as Reveal Review and Brainspace, enabling high availability, load balancing, and elastic scaling. The cluster is composed of control plane nodes and worker nodes, sized to support both core services and customer workloads.  

• Database Servers

  Reveal Enterprise relies on SQL Server databases to store case metadata, system configuration, and operational data. Database performance directly impacts system responsiveness, making CPU, memory, and storage IOPS critical factors. These servers are typically deployed on dedicated nodes for reliability and scalability.

• Processing Agents

  Processing Agents perform resource-intensive tasks such as ingestion, extraction, indexing, and imaging. These services benefit from higher CPU and memory allocations and may be distributed across multiple servers for parallel throughput. Properly sizing Processing Agents ensures predictable ingestion rates and faster case preparation.

Why This Matters

• Predictable performance - With clearly defined sizing by system role, deployments are less vulnerable to under-provisioning or bottlenecks.

• Scalable architecture - Because Kubernetes underpins the architecture, you can scale horizontally (add nodes) or vertically (increase resources) as demand grows.

• Clarity across environments - Whether you deploy on bare-metal, virtual machines, or cloud infrastructure, this guide helps you align infrastructure with Reveal’s tested configurations.

What’s Covered

This document includes:

• Server roles (database, processing/worker, Kubernetes nodes, utilities) and their responsibilities

• Recommended CPU, RAM, and storage guidance per role

• Operating system support (Windows and Linux versions)

• Kubernetes node requirements and cluster planning

• Storage sizing principles (staging, import/export, review, growth assumptions)

• Notes on scaling, clustering, and capacity considerations.

The following table summarizes recommended server roles, sizing, and resource allocations for Reveal Enterprise version 2025.8. As a cloud-native platform, Reveal Enterprise is deployed on Kubernetes, which hosts core services including Reveal Review and Brainspace. These requirements are based on a deployment sized for approximately 200 concurrent users and 10TB of data under management.