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What are the minimum containers needed for running Alfresco repository

wwijgergangs — Fri, 17 May 2024 06:43:52 GMT

We are started to work with Alfreso (community 23.2.0) and did a deploy with docker compose in total 9 containers.
We will use Alfresco only as repository, is it sufficient to start only: postgres, content-app, share, alfresco and proxy?
At first glance it seems to work.

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Re: What are the minimum containers needed for running Alfresco repository

openpj — Fri, 17 May 2024 09:25:48 GMT

I think that the minimal architecture can be summarized in the following way:

Alfresco Repository (alfresco): this is the repository service
Alfresco Share (share): this is the frontend for configuration and maintenance purpose
PostgreSQL (postgre): this is the database server
Alfresco Content App (content-app): this is the frontend UI for users
Web Server (nginx): this is the web server

But please consider that in this way you have to disable the following services:

Search Services (solr6): this is the Apache Solr 6 search engine
Transform Core AIO (transform-core-aio): this service is used for transformation and for indexing
Shared File Store (shared-file-store): this service is used as a temporary storage for transformations
ActiveMQ (activemq): this is the JMS server in order to manage asynchronous events for Out-Of-Process SDK, renditions, transformations

So the minimal architecture should be configured in the right way disabling indexing and transformations capabilities but at this point I don't know if you want a repository without the search engine or without generating renditions.

For disabling the indexing you should set the following property:

index.subsystem.name=noindex

Then you should disable the Messaging Service and the ActiveMQ topic for events:

messaging.subsystem.autoStart=false
repo.event2.enabled=false

It strongly depends on what you need to do with your project, can you share more details about what you want to achieve with Alfresco?

Re: What are the minimum containers needed for running Alfresco repository

angelborroy — Fri, 17 May 2024 13:12:40 GMT

This repository deploys incrementally Alfresco, detailing the services you're adding on each step:

https://github.com/aborroy/alfresco-incremental-deployment

Re: What are the minimum containers needed for running Alfresco repository

wwijgergangs — Tue, 21 May 2024 07:32:04 GMT

Thanks for the responses, this is really helpful for implementing the correct setup for us!