AWS Deployment for Alfresco with Search Enterprise 3 using OpenSearch

From ACS 7.1 two Search Engines are available:

• Search Services 1.x and 2.x, that is relaying on a customization of Apache SOLR 6.6
• Search Enterprise 3.x, that is a standard client for Elasticsearch and Amazon OpenSearch

This project provides a sample deployment for ACS 7.2 with Alfresco Search Enterprise 3.1.0 using AWS Managed Services (Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon RDS and Amazon MQ). Note that deploying the product in production environments would require additional configuration.

Docker Images from quay.io are used, since this product is only available for Alfresco Enterprise customers. If you are Enterprise Customer or Partner but you are still experimenting problems to download Docker Images, contact Alfresco Hyland Support in order to get required credentials and permissions.

Docker Compose

Docker Compose template includes following files:

.
├── .env-RemovePostFix
├── docker-compose.yml
├── alfresco
│   └── Dockerfile
├── keystores
├── license
├── scripts
└── cfn-aws_resources_for_alfresco_opensearch.yml

• .env-RemovePostFix includes common values and service versions to be used by Docker Compose. A sample is provided (.env-RemovePostFix), save it as .env after values for your environment has been provided
• docker-compose.yml is a regular ACS Docker Compose, including Elasticsearch Connector and the endpoints provided by OpenSearch Service, RDS and MQ in AWS
• Dockerfile has the build instructions to customize default Alfresco Repository Docker Image.
• keystores folder is empty by default, copy your truststore.pkcs12 file produced with scripts/build-truststore.sh tool
• license folder is empty be default, copy your alfresco.lic file in this folder
• scripts folder includes a set of bash scripts to configure the Alfresco EC2 Instance
• cfn-aws_resources_for_alfresco_opensearch.yml CloudFormation template to deploy AWS resources to run this Alfresco system

Deploy AWS resources with Cloudformation

After deploying the AWS resources with the provided Cloudformation template, retrieve values for your AWS environment on the Cloudformation stack's output tab.

Preparing the Alfresco EC2 Instance

Before deploying Docker Compose templates, follow this steps to configure the EC2 Instance using the scripts available in scripts folder.

cd scripts

Install Docker and Docker Compose

./1-install-docker.sh

After this step, reboot the instance (use sudo shutdown -r now command). If the instance is powered off and then restarted (rather than rebooted), it is likely that the public ipv_4 address will change.

Login quay.io

./2-login-quay.sh

Credentials required to download Alfresco Docker Images from quay.io. Contact Alfresco Support to get them.

Configure Docker Compose .env file with environmental values.

Use the values from your Cloudformation stack's output tab for for your environmental values

Create Database

./3-create-database <DatabaseEndPoint>

<DatabaseEndPoint> is the DB DNS Name created using the Cloud Formation Template, for instance acs-opensearch-opensearchalfresco.cijbca5yttz2.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com

Mount Filesystem

./4-mount-efs.sh <FileSystemMount>

<FileSystemMount> is the EFS DNS Name created using the Cloud Formation Template, for instance fs-06919b0d9d232efe3.efs.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

Create TrustStore from OpenSearch

./5-build-truststore.sh <OpenSearchDomainEndpoint>

<OpenSearchDomainEndpoint> is the OpenSearch DNS Name created using the Cloud Formation Template, for instance vpc-acs-opensearch-kwu4eqb2qmj745h7fdcoa5jp5e.eu-west-1.es.amazonaws.com

Once this script has been executed successfully, copy the produced truststore/truststore.pkcs12 file to keystores folder

Adding Alfresco License

Copy your alfresco.lic file to license folder. Contact Alfresco Support to get a valid license file for ACS 7.2.

Using

$ docker-compose up --build --force-recreate

Service URLs

http://ipv4OfAlfrescoServer:8080/workspace

ADW

• user: admin
• password: admin

http://ipv4OfAlfrescoServer:8080/alfresco

Alfresco Repository

• user: admin
• password: admin