Hi everyone! Glad to have you here. On this page, we’re going to talk about a powerful and helpful application for monitoring compliance within your organization: Eramba. This tool comes with several key benefits, such as:
- Everything in one place. All your policies, controls, and compliance tasks stay organized in one clean dashboard.
- Less manual hassle. It sends reminders, automates tasks, and helps with audits, so you don’t have to chase things one by one.
- Easy-to-understand reports. You get clear dashboards and summaries that make it easy to see what’s going on.
- Helps you manage risks. You can link controls to risks and quickly spot what needs attention.
- Audit-ready. It keeps your evidence and tasks neat and tidy, making audits way less stressful.
- Budget-friendly. It’s open-source, so you get solid features without heavy license costs.
- Flexible. You can tweak it to fit the way your team works.
The requirements below are what you’ll need to ensure a smooth installation. These can be adjusted depending on your operating system or environment:
- MySQL (database)
- Redis (caching engine)
- Eramba (application)
- Cron (for scheduled batch processes)
- Ubuntu 22.04 as the operating system
- A 64-bit kernel and CPU with virtualization support
- At least 4 GB of RAM plus 10 GB of swap space
Okay, let’s follow the steps below to begin the installation:
1. Check your hardware environment. Make sure it meets the minimum requirements:
a. Check your Operating System
#cat /etc/*release
#uname -a
b. Check your RAM (Random Access Memory)
#free -h
c. Check your Storage Capacity
#df -h
2. Set up Swap
This step is needed to make sure the server has enough disk space to use as temporary memory if the RAM gets full.
#fallocate -l 10G /swapfile
#chmod 600 /swapfile
#mkswap /swapfile
#swapon /swapfile
#echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
#free -h
3. Install the main packages needed for Eramba
First, update the system:
#apt update && apt upgrade -y
a. Install Eramba (the main Application). This step will also install the required packages for MySQL, Redis, and Cron.
#cd /root
#mkdir docker
#cd docker
#git clone https://github.com/eramba/docker
#nano .env
Do this to set up the configuration file:
DB_PASSWORD=[Password DB]
CACHE_URL=Redis://?server=redis&port=6379&password=&timeout=3
PUBLIC_ADDRESS=https://[IP Address Server]:8443
(In this guide, we configured Eramba to use port 8443 as its default.)
#curl https://support-v3.eramba.org/ping.html
(The expectation status is Success)
Create a file 'nano docker-compose.yml'
version: "3.8"
services:
mysql:
image: mysql:8.4
container_name: eramba-mysql
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: your_root_password
MYSQL_DATABASE: eramba
MYSQL_USER: eramba
MYSQL_PASSWORD: your_eramba_password
volumes:
- eramba_mysql:/var/lib/mysql
networks:
- eramba-net
redis:
image: redis:7
container_name: eramba-redis
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
- eramba-net
Execute this command to run this file 'docker-compose.yml'
#docker-compose up -d
b. Check the docker status
#docker ps
c. Check the MySQL Status (database)
#docker stats mysql
d. Check the Redis Logs (Caching Engine)
#docker logs redis
#redis-cli ping
(The expectation status is PONG)
f. Check the Eramba Logs
#docker logs eramba
g. Install Apache and PHP. Eramba requires Apache, PHP, and some specific PHP extensions (*if needed).
#apt install -y apache2 php php-cli php-mysql php-xml php-mbstring php-curl php-zip php-gd php-intl php-opcache
#php -v
4. Check the Eramba installation in your browser using https://localhost:8443 (or your DNS name https://yourdns.com). Then click 'Unlock power of GRC'.
5. Set up the Super Admin account.
6. From this screenshot, we can see that the Eramba installation and configuration were successful and that it’s ready to use for monitoring compliance.
That’s all for the guide on installing Eramba using Docker on Ubuntu 22.04. I hope the instructions were easy to follow and helpful.
Thank you.
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