Portals Overview
The cloud-native technology stack includes features to maintain and manage your installation through a unified web portal interface.
The platform serves two user communities:
- Cluster administrators — Manage software deployment to tenants in large, multi-tenant implementations
- Tenant administrators — Manage their own deployment at the individual tenant level or in smaller on-premises installations
A Deployment represents a tenant-level instance with a unique Deployment ID used for licensing. Creating a Deployment with its ID enables product consumption through the portal.
Portal Interfaces
Admin Portal — Designed for cluster administrators to configure each licensed tenant, including connection strings, encryption settings, and credentials for services and databases.
Deployment Portal — Provides tenant administrators access to their own deployment only. Features include customizing default configurations, verifying service status and run diagnostics. The deployment portal also allows users to test grammars, test TTS synthesis, test Neuron, create post processing profiles and load files to the file-store.
The Admin Portal provides direct access to the Deployment Portal via a button on the Deployment Details page.
Access Control
Some implementations allow cluster administrators dual access to both portals; others restrict this role to the Admin Portal only. Firewall rules and hostname whitelisting using the format ingress_host_name.client_hostname_suffix enable IT teams to control access.
Example hostnames:
- admin-portal.testmachine.com
- deployment-portal.testmachine.com
Customers select which ports are externally exposed. Using separate, configurable ports for each portal simplifies firewall configuration and access management.
Self-Signed Certificates
If using self-signed certificates, additional steps are required to view the portal from your desktop browser. See Configuring Self-Signed Certificates for instructions.