Alfresco Content Services Deployment

Contributing guide

Please use this guide to make a contribution to the project and information to report any issues.

This project contains the code for starting the entire Alfresco Content Services (Enterprise) product with Docker or Kubernetes.

The master branch of this repository will endeavour to support the following deployments:

• Docker Compose (latest): For development and trials
• MiniKube (latest): For development and POCs
• Helm - AWS Cloud with Kubernetes using Kops (latest): As a reference or basis of production deployments

For the Community edition, go to the acs-community-deployment. The only differences between these projects are:

• In the Enterprise chart, the images for the transformers are used, instead of the included binaries.
• In the Enterprise chart, a cluster of two alfresco-content-repository nodes are started by default.

Contents of the deployment

Alfresco Content Services deployed via docker-compose or Kubernetes contains the following:

1. Alfresco Repository, with:
   1.1. Alfresco Share Services
   1.2. Alfresco Office Service (AOS) AMP
   1.3. Alfresco vti-bin war - helps with AOS integration
   1.4. Alfresco Google Docs Repo AMP
2. Alfresco Share, with:
   2.1 Alfresco Google Docs Share AMP
3. A Postgres DB
4. Alfresco Search Services (Solr6)
5. Alfresco Transform Service
6. Alfresco Digital Workspace

Deployment options

• Deploying with Helm charts on AWS using Kops
• Deploying with Helm charts on AWS using EKS
• Deploying with Helm charts using Minikube
• Deploying using Docker Compose
• Customizing your deployment

Production environments

The Helm charts in this repository provide a PostgreSQL database in a docker container and do not configure any logging. This design has been chosen so that they can be installed in a Kubernetes cluster without changes and are still flexible to be adopted to your actual environment.
For your environment, you should use these charts as a starting point and modify them so that ACS integrates into your infrastructure. You typically want to remove the PostgreSQL container and connect the cs-repository directly to your database (might require custom images to get the required JDBC driver in the container). Another typical change would be the integration of your company-wide monitoring and logging tools.

Other information

• See alternative commands and start up tutorial with AWS support
• Tips and tricks for working with Kubernetes and Alfresco Content Services.
• The images downloaded directly from Docker Hub, or Quay.io are for a limited trial of the Enterprise version of Alfresco Content Services that goes into read-only mode after 2 days. Request an extended 30-day trial at https://www.alfresco.com/platform/content-services-ecm/trial/docker
• Alfresco customers can request Quay.io credentials by logging a ticket with Alfresco Support. These credentials are required to pull private (Enterprise-only) Docker images from Quay.io.

On Cloud Supported/unsupported endpoints/features/amps

Repository team

Supported:

• V1 REST API
• WebDAV
• CMIS (all three bindings)
• AOS
• S3
• Renditions
• Authentication with alfrescoNTLM
• Authentication with AIS (JWT)
• Email
• IMAP
• Activity Feeds / Subscriptions
• Build in ACS Workflows

Not Supported:

• FTP
• SAML
• LDAP
• Centera
• V0 APIs

Not supported OnPrem and OnCloud:

• Multi Tenancy
• SMB/CIFS
• Authentication with passthru
• The old Cloud Sync
• Transformations (we only support renditions)