Introduction to Element Server Suite

Element Server Suite provides an enterprise-grade secure communications platform. It can be deployed to either your own environment or in our Element Cloud. Element Server Suite includes the Element Matrix Server, which provides a host of security and privacy features, including:

Further, we also offer Enterprise Support, giving you access to experts in federated, secure communications. This should give you confidence to deploy our platform for your most critical secure communications needs.

Given the flexibility afforded by this platform, there are a number of moving parts to configure. This documentation will step you through configuring and deploying Element Enterprise On-Premise.

The first question you'll face is how you want to deploy!

Deploying Element Server Suite

Support for Standalone and Kubernetes deployments.

Element Enterprise On-Premise can be deployed both to a full Kubernetes (a lightweight container orchestration platform) installation or onto a standalone server based on a single-node Kubernetes installation.

One key benefit of going with a full Kubernetes installation is that you can add more resources and nodes to a cluster as you need them, whereas you are capped at one node with our standalone server.

In the case of our standalone server installation, we deploy to microk8s (a smaller lightweight distribution of Kubernetes), which we then use for deploying our Element application.

Versions

Element Server Suite comes in three subscriptions, with differing feature sets. You can register for access to the Starter edition for free, or for a trial of Enterprise Edition by visiting here.

Components

Element Server Suite comprises of the following components:

Core Components

Optional Components

VOIP
Monitoring
Bridges

Architecture

This document gives an overview of our secure communications platform architecture:

Matrix Architecture - Generic Kubernetes Deployment

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Created 6 November 2024 10:22:08 by Kieran Mitchell Lane
Updated 6 November 2024 13:21:49 by Kieran Mitchell Lane