Installation

This page describes how to use Rasa Ephemeral Installer to install Rasa Enterprise.

Before You Start#

REI installs rasactl. rasactl deploys Rasa Enterprise without a Rasa Open Source server. To connect a Rasa Open Source server, see the Connect Rasa Open Source to Rasa Enterprise section. You can learn more about rasactl in the rasactl CLI docs section.

The Quickstart section assumes you will be connecting to a remote Git repository. To start Rasa Enterprise with a local Rasa project mounted, see Starting Rasa Enterprise with a Local Rasa Project.

Quickstart#

1. Download and run Rasa Ephemeral Installer:

The command above will prepare the environment and install the following components:

• docker
• kind
• helm
• kubectl
• rasactl

2. Use rasactl to deploy Rasa :

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   $ rasactl start

   ∙∙∙ Ready!

   ╭ Rasa X ───────────────────────────────────────────────╮

   │ │

   │ URL: http://agitated-goldberg.rasactl.localhost │

   │ Rasa X version: 1.1.3 │

   │ Rasa X password: rasaxlocal │

   │ │

   ╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

   By default, rasactl will deploy the latest stable release of Rasa Enterprise. To use the latest edge release of Rasa Enterprise, run the following instead:

   rasactl start --rasa-x-edge-release

3. Check the status of your deployment.

3. Use the rasactl open command to view Rasa Enterprise in a web browser. From there you can connect Rasa Enterprise to your bot's git repository.

Starting Rasa Enterprise with a Local Rasa Project#

The following instruction describes how to deploy Rasa Enterprise with a mounted local Rasa project.

Requirements#

1. kind. Using a local Rasa project is only supported with kind as the k8s platform. kind is installed along with other tools if you use the REI to install all components.

2. A local Rasa project. If you don't have one yet, there are two easy ways to create a Rasa project:

   • use the rasa init command.
   • use the Rasa Playground to create and download a project.

Starting Rasa Enterprise#

After downloading and installing REI:

1. Start Rasa Enterprise in your local Rasa project directory:

You can use the --project-path flag to define a Rasa project directory explicitly, in which case you don't have to run the command from your project directory.

2. Check the status of your deployment - it should reflect your local project path:

Next Steps#

• Connect a Rasa Open Source server to a Rasa Enterprise deployment.
• Learn more about rasactl.