Create an agent in your infrastructure
This topic explains how to create an agent in your own infrastructure. For a discussion of why you might want to deploy in your own infrastructure rather than use a Matillion Full SaaS solution, read Agent overview. We currently support agents running in AWS or Azure infrastructure.
Read Scaling best practices to understand how to size your agent for the level of performance you need.
Prerequisites
- A Hub account. To register, read Registration. Once you have signed up, log in to the Hub.
- An account in either Azure or AWS to host the agent.
Create an agent
- Click the menu button in the top left of any Data Productivity Cloud screen, then click Manage → Agents.
- Click Add agent.
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Complete the following properties:
- Agent name: A unique name for your new agent. Maximum 30 characters. Accepts both uppercase and lowercase A-z, 0-9, whitespace (not the first character), hyphens and underscores.
- Cloud provider: The cloud platform that the agent will be deployed to. Currently, AWS and Azure are supported.
- Deployment: The supported deployment method for the given cloud provider. Currently, Container app for Azure and Fargate for AWS are supported.
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Click Create agent.
Set up the agent in your cloud infrastructure
When created with the above process, the agent needs to be set up in your cloud infrastructure. There are several different ways of doing this, and you can use whichever method suits you:
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For AWS agents:
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For Azure agents:
To complete these processes, you will require certain details of the created agent. To obtain these details, locate the agent in the list of agents, and click ... next to it, then click Agent details. The parameters and values in the sections Agent image URI, Agent environment variables, and Credentials are required when configuring your agent in your cloud infrastructure.
Check agent status
After deploying the agent in your cloud infrastructure, you should return to the Data Productivity Cloud to verify that it is correctly connected and running.
- Click the menu button in the top left of any Data Productivity Cloud screen, then click Manage → Agents.
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Locate the agent in the list and check the status:
- Running: The agent is connected and ready for development and pipeline tasks.
- Unknown: The agent is in an unknown state.
- Pending: The agent has been created but has not yet connected to the Hub.
- Stopped: The agent has been stopped.
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When the agent status shows Running, it is ready to use.