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Posted to dev@fineract.apache.org by Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org> on 2018/12/04 23:39:12 UTC
Getting to a Deployable Version of Fineract CN in the Cloud
Hi all,
As was evident in the struggles James faced in getting to a build (1) and
the ever-growing thread on getting a public demo server of Fineract CN up
[2] (still not brought to completion yet), it is very difficult to take the
current set of microservices, build on top of them, and deploy into a
production cloud environment. While it's possible and several companies in
the ecosystem have done so, we need to reduce these barriers to entry and
improve the overall initial experience so we can get more eyes on the new
framework.
Isaac's cleanup of this on the How to Build wiki page [3] helps in some
regards and is a step in the right direction.
I'd like us to unite the various efforts in the community to help us get to
providing a build of Fineract CN along with scripts to deploy in various
cloud environments.
I know that one partner in the community has been successfully deploying to
Google Cloud, another to AWS, and we're also exploring deployment in Azure
as well as converting Kubernetes scripts to make it deployable on top of
OpenShift. Courage, through her Mifos GSOC project, also put a significant
amount into containerizing Fineract CN [4]
My goal with this thread is to have one common place to
1) Discuss the challenges/next steps currently faced.
2) Wrap up Courage's work and wrap up Aleks' work.
3) Address at a code level which and how the microservices need to demo the
framework run - simplifying demo server. [5]
4) Consolidate discussion into a wiki page at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Deploying+Fineract+CN+in+a+Cloud+Environment
5) Work towards publishing of scripts to make Fineract CN deployable in
different cloud environments
I welcome the individuals from the organizations who have built up this
knowledge to share it on this thread and will try to re-engage Ramesh to
pick up where he left on his volunteer project on this topic [6]
References
[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f14f1806108f6ec9652efdef6995042a42b7015fa6bd6104c981e5ae@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
[2]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f895088ab20db1d8f96a6862e0c28d1a369b0814288f356d175a4032@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
[3]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/How+To+Build+Apache+Fineract+CN
[4]
https://gist.github.com/Anh3h/760fe3313e5a7cad753899dbfe067679
[5]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/002c037caaae8744800ae1cc0e9b471d111247026d17298f24d68491@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
[6]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Hosting+Experiences+from+Partners
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President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
edcable@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649
*Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org
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Re: Getting to a Deployable Version of Fineract CN in the Cloud
Posted by Courage Angeh <co...@gmail.com>.
Hi Ed,
Thanks for this follow-up email.
I was tied up last month but will continue working on the project this
month.
As of now, the system can be deployed using docker and docker-compose
on-premise.
I will continue implementing the scripts requires to deploy it on GKE and
Azure using Kubernetes.
Thanks,
Courage.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 3:39 PM Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As was evident in the struggles James faced in getting to a build (1) and
> the ever-growing thread on getting a public demo server of Fineract CN up
> [2] (still not brought to completion yet), it is very difficult to take the
> current set of microservices, build on top of them, and deploy into a
> production cloud environment. While it's possible and several companies in
> the ecosystem have done so, we need to reduce these barriers to entry and
> improve the overall initial experience so we can get more eyes on the new
> framework.
>
> Isaac's cleanup of this on the How to Build wiki page [3] helps in some
> regards and is a step in the right direction.
>
> I'd like us to unite the various efforts in the community to help us get to
> providing a build of Fineract CN along with scripts to deploy in various
> cloud environments.
>
> I know that one partner in the community has been successfully deploying to
> Google Cloud, another to AWS, and we're also exploring deployment in Azure
> as well as converting Kubernetes scripts to make it deployable on top of
> OpenShift. Courage, through her Mifos GSOC project, also put a significant
> amount into containerizing Fineract CN [4]
>
> My goal with this thread is to have one common place to
>
> 1) Discuss the challenges/next steps currently faced.
> 2) Wrap up Courage's work and wrap up Aleks' work.
> 3) Address at a code level which and how the microservices need to demo the
> framework run - simplifying demo server. [5]
> 4) Consolidate discussion into a wiki page at
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Deploying+Fineract+CN+in+a+Cloud+Environment
> 5) Work towards publishing of scripts to make Fineract CN deployable in
> different cloud environments
>
> I welcome the individuals from the organizations who have built up this
> knowledge to share it on this thread and will try to re-engage Ramesh to
> pick up where he left on his volunteer project on this topic [6]
>
> References
> [1]
>
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f14f1806108f6ec9652efdef6995042a42b7015fa6bd6104c981e5ae@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
> [2]
>
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f895088ab20db1d8f96a6862e0c28d1a369b0814288f356d175a4032@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
> [3]
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/How+To+Build+Apache+Fineract+CN
> [4]
> https://gist.github.com/Anh3h/760fe3313e5a7cad753899dbfe067679
> [5]
>
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/002c037caaae8744800ae1cc0e9b471d111247026d17298f24d68491@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
> [6]
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Hosting+Experiences+from+Partners
>
>
> --
> *Ed Cable*
> President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
> edcable@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649
>
> *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org
> <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
>
Re: Getting to a Deployable Version of Fineract CN in the Cloud
Posted by Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org>.
To advance the points outlined in the previous email back in early December
and the continued need to finalize the deployment of a public demo server
on the ASF infrastructure along with finalizing and refining Courage's
containerization project amongst others, I'm pulling together a group of
DevOps stakeholders that will be meeting regularly and spearheading some of
these topics and sharing its progress with the Fineract and Mifos
communities.
The first meeting of this group will be Wednesday February 13 at 1400GMT
via GoToTraining - https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/1868033268927296770
Notes will be shared after the meeting for those who can't join.
Our goal is to discuss and share lessons learned from from the current
cloud deployments of Fineract CN and to discuss the outstanding tasks
related to identify clear owners and next steps for the list of outstanding
items in:
1) Finalize Aleks' initial work of deploying Fineract CN demo server on
Apache infrastructure
2) Wrap and refine up Courage's work on containerization during GSOC.
3) Discuss and extend the ongoing work Isaac is leading to simplify the
process for deploying Fineract CN [5]
4) Consolidate ongoing discussion into a wiki page at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Deploying+Fineract+CN+in+a+Cloud+Environment
5) Work towards publishing of scripts to make Fineract CN deployable in
different cloud environments
Cheers,
Ed
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 3:39 PM Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As was evident in the struggles James faced in getting to a build (1) and
> the ever-growing thread on getting a public demo server of Fineract CN up
> [2] (still not brought to completion yet), it is very difficult to take the
> current set of microservices, build on top of them, and deploy into a
> production cloud environment. While it's possible and several companies in
> the ecosystem have done so, we need to reduce these barriers to entry and
> improve the overall initial experience so we can get more eyes on the new
> framework.
>
> Isaac's cleanup of this on the How to Build wiki page [3] helps in some
> regards and is a step in the right direction.
>
> I'd like us to unite the various efforts in the community to help us get
> to providing a build of Fineract CN along with scripts to deploy in various
> cloud environments.
>
> I know that one partner in the community has been successfully deploying
> to Google Cloud, another to AWS, and we're also exploring deployment in
> Azure as well as converting Kubernetes scripts to make it deployable on top
> of OpenShift. Courage, through her Mifos GSOC project, also put a
> significant amount into containerizing Fineract CN [4]
>
> My goal with this thread is to have one common place to
>
> 1) Discuss the challenges/next steps currently faced.
> 2) Wrap up Courage's work and wrap up Aleks' work.
> 3) Address at a code level which and how the microservices need to demo
> the framework run - simplifying demo server. [5]
> 4) Consolidate discussion into a wiki page at
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Deploying+Fineract+CN+in+a+Cloud+Environment
> 5) Work towards publishing of scripts to make Fineract CN deployable in
> different cloud environments
>
> I welcome the individuals from the organizations who have built up this
> knowledge to share it on this thread and will try to re-engage Ramesh to
> pick up where he left on his volunteer project on this topic [6]
>
> References
> [1]
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f14f1806108f6ec9652efdef6995042a42b7015fa6bd6104c981e5ae@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
> [2]
>
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f895088ab20db1d8f96a6862e0c28d1a369b0814288f356d175a4032@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
> [3]
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/How+To+Build+Apache+Fineract+CN
> [4]
> https://gist.github.com/Anh3h/760fe3313e5a7cad753899dbfe067679
> [5]
>
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/002c037caaae8744800ae1cc0e9b471d111247026d17298f24d68491@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
> [6]
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Hosting+Experiences+from+Partners
>
>
> --
> *Ed Cable*
> President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
> edcable@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649
>
> *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org
> <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
>
>
--
*Ed Cable*
President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
edcable@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649
*Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org
<http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>