Installation

Tax Balance includes the Tax Balance Backend Server (Rest API) and the Tax Balance Web Application.

Self-hosted Tax Balance Server

When installed, the self-hosted Tax Balance Server:

• Runs

  • As a Web site on Windows with Internet Information Services (IIS).

  • As a Windows Service called TaxBalance

  • In a Linux container

• Stores its data in an SQL Server Database.

• Includes an embedded HTTP server which serves the Tax Balance Backend and the Tax Balance Web Application

Install Tax Balance on Windows with IIS

See: Host Tax Balance on Windows with IIS

Install Tax Balance as a Windows Service

See: Host Tax Balance in a Windows Service

Run Tax Balance in a Container

Running Tax Balance inside a container lets you avoid installing Tax Balance directly on top of your infrastructure and makes getting up and running with Tax Balance as simple as a one-line command. Upgrading to the latest version of Tax Balance is just a matter of running a new container with the new image version.

We recommend the use of the Tax Balance Linux Container if you are okay with all these conditions:

• You are familiar with Docker concepts, specifically around debugging containers, volume mounting, and networking.

• You are comfortable with one of the underlying hosting technologies for Docker containers; Kubernetes, ACS, ECS, AKS, EKS, or Docker itself.

We publish linux/amd64 Docker images for each Tax Balance release, and they are available on DockerHub.