INSTALLATION PROCEDURE

This document describes the procedure configure a fresh Linux OS by installing and configuring the software needed to deploy Linkcare API instances.

This guide assumes that the server machine (either virtual or physical) already exist and the base OS is Ubuntu Server 16.04, though it should be easily adapted to other Linux distributions.

Deploy with Docker

Linkcare relies on Docker Container Technology to do the deploy of the system.

Each component of the platform is provided as a Docker image. The benefits of this approach are:

• Installing a new server only requires the installation of the basic software to run the Docker containers. It is not necessary to install and configure the software requirements of each component of the platform (because they are already contained in each Docker images).

• Improves the scalability of the system

• The correct execution of the software is guaranteed because each Docker image contains the whole ecosystem that has already been tested to run software.

This guide contains the steps to prepare a Linux server to download, install and run the Docker containers.

The installation procedure assumes that the reader is familiar with executing commands in a terminal command-line shell.