Data Plane on On-Premises Servers

Overview

The Aurva Data Plane collects discovery, classification, query activity, and posture telemetry from your environment and forwards it to the Aurva Control Plane for analysis and visualization.

This guide covers Data Plane deployment on already-provisioned servers (on-premises or in any cloud) using Aurva's standalone Docker Compose installer.

High Level Architecture

Aurva deploys a Data Plane consisting of multiple nodes (two in the diagram) for high availability. When DAM is enabled, an Aurva agent is also installed on each monitored database; the agent forwards database activity to the Data Plane through a network load balancer (nginx). The Data Plane processes these events and forwards the structured results to the Control Plane.

Infrastructure Prerequisites

The customer must provision the following before installing the Data Plane:

Component	Requirement
Architecture	x86_64
Supported OS	Ubuntu 20/22/24/25, RHEL & AlmaLinux 8/9/10
Compute	4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (minimum)
Storage	50 GB minimum
Node count	Production: minimum 2; scale out as needed. PoC: 1 is acceptable.

Networking Prerequisites

The following outbound destinations must be reachable from the Data Plane servers:

Destination	Port	Purpose
Control Plane URL (command.aurva.io for production, command.uat.aurva.io for PoC; PaaS uses your internal subdomain)	443	Data Plane → Control Plane communication
resources.deployment.aurva.io	443	Download deployment scripts and resources
registry.aurva.io	443	Pull Aurva container images
Target databases	Native database ports	Required for discovery, classification, and DAM

Deployment Steps

Step 1 / 6 — Become root

sudo su

Step 2 / 6 — Download the installer

Using curl:

mkdir -p /opt/aurva-dataplane
cd /opt/aurva-dataplane
curl -O https://resources.deployment.aurva.io/manifests/main/install-standalone-dataplane-dockercompose.tar.gz
tar -xzvf install-standalone-dataplane-dockercompose.tar.gz
rm install-standalone-dataplane-dockercompose.tar.gz

Using wget:

mkdir -p /opt/aurva-dataplane
cd /opt/aurva-dataplane
wget https://resources.deployment.aurva.io/manifests/main/install-standalone-dataplane-dockercompose.tar.gz
tar -xzvf install-standalone-dataplane-dockercompose.tar.gz
rm install-standalone-dataplane-dockercompose.tar.gz

Step 3 / 6 — Navigate to the installer directory

cd /opt/aurva-dataplane/install-standalone-dataplane-dockercompose

Step 4 / 6 — Configure environment variables

Open the global variables file and update the values:

vi variables/global_env

If you are deploying to a cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), also update the controller-specific variables:

vi variables/controller_env

Set:

HOSTING=cloud
REGION=<CLOUD_REGION>          # e.g. ap-south-1
CLOUD_PROVIDER=<CLOUD_PROVIDER> # aws | gcp | azure

Step 5 / 6 — Make the installer executable

chmod +x main.sh

Step 6 / 6 — Run the installer

bash main.sh --postgresql=enable --controller=enable --piianalyser=enable

Installation typically completes in 2–3 minutes.

Verification

1. Confirm containers are running

docker ps

You should see aurva-controller, aurva-piianalyser, and aurva-postgresql in the list. To inspect logs for any service:

docker logs <CONTAINER_ID>

2. Confirm in the Aurva console

In the Aurva console, navigate to Settings → Monitoring Configuration. The new Data Plane (named per UNIQUENESS_IDENTIFIER in global_env) should appear and report Healthy within a few minutes.

Next Steps

• Onboard your first asset via Onboarding a Data Asset Manually.
• Enable DAM via Monitoring Configuration.