System Architecture
Docker is used to build and run the various system components, and Kubernetes is used for orchestration. The components of the system are:
- Tomcat
- Apache
- MySql
- Solr
- Geoserver
- ActiveMQ
The images can be built and used localy, but are also built by Travis.
Docker
The web application is split into two components, the portal and harvester. Each is packaged in it’s own tomcat container and run independently. Apache sits in front of the tomcat applications as a proxy and to serve static assets.
Docker images are built via maven and the
docker-maven-plugin. Docker
configuration lives in the docker/ directory of the relevant submodule.
Kubernetes
We are targeting Google Container Engine (gce) as our deployment environment. Images are
named appropriately for pushing to the Google Container Registry. The specific repo to use
is specified with the docker.registry property.
Configuration is available on Github