Thanks for you feedback Raymond, I added some comments inline
>
> 1) Is the integration designer (Syndysis itself) also a Spring Boot
> application?
>
Yes it is. It's actually 6 microservices:
1. Oauth proxy for SSO
2. A React UI with the designer
3. Server a Rest API type backend
4. Database PostgreSQL for persistence
5. Meta to live interact with 3rd Party service for things like check
the password validity
6. Prometheus for monitoring
But I think you mean the server backend (2 and 5) which, yes, are both
Spring Boot apps.
> 2) As the integrations are Spring boot applications can they deployed on
> any JVM directly? Must they be on MiniShift/Openshift or can I do without
> and deploy directly on Windows, Docker, Azure etc?
>
They are 'standalone' Java apps. And /could/ be run as such if you take
care of some configuration, like secrets etc which as provided by the
OpenShift machinery. Also things like metrics collection rely on the
OpenShift infrastructure. So for now I would say they need
MiniShift/OpenShift. One of the things that are in the works is to deploy
on Camel-K, so the designers output would be a Camel-K route and you can
deploy it anywhere you can run Camel-K (which adds plain vanilla Kubernetes
support)
> 3) Is there any official Docker Image? (For example including Fedora,
> OpenJDK, MiniShift and Syndysis, Some examples etc). That would make a
> quick start quicker.
>
Unfortunately there is not at the moment. If, however, you managed to have
Minishift installed then running this sets it all up:
bash <(curl -sL https://syndes.is/start)
(referenced in
https://github.com/syndesisio/syndesis-quickstarts/blob/master/README.md#3-install-syndesis
)
We are working towards having a fat-jar zip file that you'd run to bring up
the designer as a standalone java process. This so people can try it out
much easier before having to go full cloud native. The standalone would not
be able to support all features though (like metrics etc)
Did I respond to all your questions? Looking forward to hearing more
feedback!
--Kurt
