System Requirements
AuroraSOC is a distributed system with multiple components. Below are the hardware and software requirements for different deployment scenarios.
Deployment Profiles
Development / Demo Mode
The minimal setup for local development and demonstrations:
| Resource | Requirement |
|---|---|
| CPU | 4 cores |
| RAM | 8 GB minimum |
| Disk | 20 GB SSD |
| GPU | Not required |
| OS | Linux, macOS, or Windows (WSL2) |
Components running: API + Dashboard + Database services
Production — Single Node
Full deployment on a single server:
| Resource | Requirement |
|---|---|
| CPU | 16 cores |
| RAM | 64 GB |
| Disk | 500 GB NVMe SSD |
| GPU | NVIDIA GPU with 16+ GB VRAM (for Ollama LLM) |
| Network | 1 Gbps |
| OS | Ubuntu 22.04+ / RHEL 9+ |
Production — Distributed
Multi-node deployment for large organizations:
| Component | Nodes | Per-Node Resources |
|---|---|---|
| API Gateway | 2+ | 4 CPU, 8 GB RAM |
| Agent Workers | 4+ | 8 CPU, 16 GB RAM, GPU |
| Database Cluster | 3+ | 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD |
| Event Bus | 3+ | 4 CPU, 8 GB RAM |
| Edge Gateway | Per-site | 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM |
Software Prerequisites
Required
| Software | Version | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Docker | 24.0+ | Container runtime |
| Docker Compose | 2.20+ | Multi-container orchestration |
| Python | 3.12+ | API and agent runtime |
| Node.js | 22+ | Dashboard build |
| npm | 10+ | JavaScript package manager |
Optional
| Software | Version | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Rust | 1.83+ | Building the Rust core engine |
| Ollama | 0.4+ | Local LLM inference |
| Alire | 2.0+ | Ada SPARK firmware (STM32) |
| probe-rs | 0.24+ | nRF52840 firmware flashing |
| Zephyr SDK | 0.16+ | ESP32-S3 firmware |
Network Requirements
AuroraSOC uses the following ports by default:
| Port | Protocol | Service | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8000 | HTTP | FastAPI REST API | Yes |
| 3000 | HTTP | Next.js Dashboard | Yes |
| 5432 | TCP | PostgreSQL | Yes |
| 6379 | TCP | Redis | Yes |
| 4222 | TCP | NATS Client | Yes |
| 8222 | HTTP | NATS Monitoring | Optional |
| 6333 | HTTP | Qdrant | Yes |
| 6334 | gRPC | Qdrant | Optional |
| 1883 | MQTT | Mosquitto (plain) | Dev only |
| 8883 | MQTTS | Mosquitto (TLS) | Production |
| 11434 | HTTP | Ollama LLM | If using agents |
| 8001 | HTTP | MCP Tool Registry | If using agents |
| 9000-9015 | HTTP | Agent A2A ports | If using agents |
| 9090 | HTTP | Prometheus | Optional |
| 3001 | HTTP | Grafana | Optional |
| 4317 | gRPC | OTel Collector | Optional |
| 8200 | HTTP | HashiCorp Vault | Optional |
Docker Network Architecture
AuroraSOC uses four isolated Docker networks for security:
Network Isolation
The four networks (frontend, agent-mesh, data-plane, iot-plane) ensure that edge devices on the IoT plane cannot directly access the database, and the dashboard cannot directly communicate with agents — all traffic flows through the API gateway.