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 [email protected] | 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>
