Requirements

These are the basic requirements for hosted Monolith on-premises

Docker

Docker or Docker Desktop is required for Monolith on-premises deployments. Installation instructions can be found here.

Hardware

The following hardware is required to properly run the Monolith API backend within Docker:

• Ubuntu Server 20, 22, 24

• 4GB of RAM

• 2-core CPU

• At least 100 GB of storage (>500 GB recommended)

SMTP (Email Use)

To enable Monolith’s email capabilities, an email account is required with SMTP credentials:

• SMTP host

• SMTP port

• SMTP user

• SMTP password

These values are supplied to the Monolith API server/Docker container at run-time.

Amazon AWS S3 Integration

If you want to store Monolith files in AWS S3, you will need to have the following to integrate S3:

• AWS Access Key

• AWS Secret Key

• AWS Region & Endpoint