Hi Folks, Since Airavata is a multi server platform with lots of components and configurations, it is quite challenging for a new developer to get started with the code base and setup a running Airavata deployment locally. To address that, we came up with a standalone deployment guide [1] which utilizes a VirtualBox VM and Ansible scripts to setup a deployment locally. Even though this fulfilled the requirements for some extent, we found that the amount of configuration was still little bit overwhelming and software update process was not realtime as binaries were deployed in a VM.
Due to above mentioned issues, we have explored possible alternatives for VM based deployment and reduce the setup time with less or no configurations. As a solution, we came up with a new module [2] for Airavata which can start all the Airavata and all other supportive components within the IDE. This module mainly contains 2 parts. Java code to start Airavata server components and docker composer configuration to load rest of the supportive components as docker containers such as Database, Zookeeper, Keycloak, Kafka, RabbitMQ and a custom SSHD server. In addition to that, it contains instructions on how to start and connect our new user portal (Django portal) and old portal (PGA) to Airavata so that you can straightaway tryout Airavata with less trouble. Aiaravata database comes with pre loaded data which contains a simple Echo application and one of our test JestStream cluster details. So you do not need to worry about those configurations as well. To guide you more, I have created a short screencast [3] that covers main steps mentioned in the Readme [4] file. However you have to thoroughly follow each and every step mentioned in the Readme file in order to make everything work without any issue. Since this is a new implementation with very limited amount of testing, it is expected for you to come up with various issues in the process and please let us know about them so that we can improve this further. Or if you can directly contribute, it is highly appreciated. [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dFhajiYlPtNymIKbMvCXeLivLHujLjvE107QyUDEgdA/edit?usp=sharing [2] https://github.com/apache/airavata/tree/develop/modules/ide-integration [3] https://youtu.be/nMlrYTqAKd0 [4] https://github.com/apache/airavata/blob/develop/modules/ide-integration/README.md Thanks Dimuthu
