Alfresco Content Service deployment includes several services in order to provide different features for the product.
This blog post describes how these services are deployed, packaged and built from source code.
Resources
- Alfresco Docker Images for deployment are available in https://hub.docker.com/u/alfresco
- ZIP Distribution files for deployment are (mainly) available in https://nexus.alfresco.com/nexus
- Packaged JAR libraries for the different modules are also available in https://nexus.alfresco.com/nexus
- Source Code is available in https://github.com/alfresco/
alfresco
This service is a WAR application deployed in Tomcat.
- Sample deployment for Docker Compose is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/acs-deployment/blob/master/docker-compose/community-docker-compose.yml
- Packaging for ZIP Distribution file and Docker Image is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/acs-community-packaging
- Source code is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-community-repo
activemq
This service is an standard ActiveMQ with some customizations available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-docker-activemq
transform-misc
This Spring Boot service runs as a standalone application.
- Packaging for Docker Image is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-transform-core/tree/master/alfresco-transform-misc/alfresco-tra...
- Source code is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-transform-core/tree/master/alfresco-transform-misc/alfresco-tra...
alfresco-pdf-renderer
This Spring Boot service runs as a standalone application.
- Packaging for Docker Image is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-transform-core/tree/master/alfresco-transform-pdf-renderer/alfr...
- Source code is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-transform-core/tree/master/alfresco-transform-pdf-renderer/alfr...
imagemagick
This Spring Boot service runs as a standalone application.
- Packaging for Docker Image is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-transform-core/tree/master/alfresco-transform-imagemagick/alfre...
- Source code is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-transform-core/tree/master/alfresco-transform-imagemagick/alfre...
libreoffice
This Spring Boot service runs as a standalone application.
- Packaging for Docker Image is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-transform-core/tree/master/alfresco-transform-libreoffice/alfre...
- Source code is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-transform-core/tree/master/alfresco-transform-libreoffice/alfre...
tika
This Spring Boot service runs as a standalone application.
- Packaging for Docker Image is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-transform-core/tree/master/alfresco-transform-tika/alfresco-tra...
- Source code is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-transform-core/tree/master/alfresco-transform-tika/alfresco-tra...
solr6
This service is a WAR deployed in a Jetty server.
- Packaging for ZIP Distribution file and Docker Image is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/SearchServices/tree/master/search-services/packaging
- Source code is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/SearchServices
share
This service is a WAR deployed in Tomcat server.
- Packaging for ZIP Distribution file and Docker Image is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/share/tree/develop/packaging
- Source code is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/share/tree/develop/share
content-app
This service is an Angular app deployed on an NGINX or Apache Httpd server
- Packaging for ZIP Distribution file and Docker Image is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-content-app/tree/develop/docker
- Source code is available in https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-content-app
proxy
This service is a customized NGINX server with some customizations available in https://github.com/Alfresco/acs-ingress/tree/acs-community-ingress
Building Alfresco from Source Code
In order to build the projects, following software needs to be installed in your computer:
- Java 11
- Maven 3
- Docker (only to build Docker Images)
- Node.js (only for content-app)
Every service is built from source code, packaged and published to Docker Hub as Docker Image or to Nexus Repository as ZIP Distribution file. Every GitHub project includes instructions on how to perform these operations.
Let's take SearchServices project as sample in order to build this service from source code.
Step 1: Clone the source code from GitHub
$ git clone https://github.com/Alfresco/SearchServices.git
Step 2: Build the Maven Project
$ cd SearchServices/search-services $ mvn clean package -DskipTests
Step 3: ZIP Distribution file is produced by this Maven build in the following path
packaging/target/alfresco-search-services-2.1.0-SNAPSHOT.zip
Step 4: Docker Image can be built from packaging folder
$ cd packaging/target/docker-resources $ docker build . -t searchservices:local ... Successfully built a656068d4ec3 Successfully tagged searchservices:local
In case you want to build an specific version instead of master branch, just checkout the version tag (2.0.1 in the sample below) after cloning the project from GitHub.
$ git checkout 2.0.1
