EPrints / Azure Project

WHAT WE NEED

CI/CD pipeline

• Configure a GitHub Action to create a container instance
• https://github.com/uol-library/az-eprints/blob/main/assets/images/plan.drawio.png

Container registry

• Deploy a Docker image to an Azure Container Instance

MariaDB (Azure SAAS)

• NOT containerised database as part of Pod
• Requires Access tables -> flat file

AZ Storage

• Requires EPrints Storage Plugin to use blobs (like amazon_s3 plugin)
• BagIt
• OCFL
• volatile data
• usage metrics
• access tables

AZ Functions

AZ Firewalls

AZ ScaleSets (for containers)

AZ networking

WHAT WE'RE CREATING

Containers to run:

• RDL
• RADAR
• Timescapes
• Digital Library
• DUAL
• RADIAL
• WRRO
• WREO

PLUS

• DEV instances of above
• QA instances of above (where needed)
• Digital preservation strategy - Wellcome Storage Service?

Web front-ends

Processing back-ends

Ingest back-ends

Management dashoard

Workflows

Ingest sources (e.g. from Globus / Z:\ drive / ??? )

Research compute resource adjacent to content

• LASER
• SafePod

IIIF

ElasticSearch (container)

Volatile / Derivative versions (thumbnails / coversheets / indexes)

Connector with explore.library.leeds.ac.uk + DLIB API layer

Usage metrics (volatile data within storage format).

TOOLCHAIN

• Terraform / Ansible
• S21 Soure-To-Image
• EPrints (versioned)
  • Flavours (versioned)
  • Ingredients (versioned)

IMAGES

Whiteboard from planning session

Plan for compiling Container Instances from multiple components

Architecture plan for Azure (based on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/solution-ideas/articles/migrate-existing-applications-to-container-apps)