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 of 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.