Migration from 4.4With BlueSpice 4.5 there were important changes to the container portfolio:
- There are no "all-in-one" containers anymore. Neither for FREE, not for PRO and FARM editions
- The "distributed-services" setup for PRO and FARM edition has been reworked
If you are upgrading from one of the above-mentioned setups, please refer to the migration guide
Overview
The BlueSpice application consists of a number of different services. To ease installations, they are available as a pre-configured stack at github.com/hallowelt/bluespice-deploy, but they also allow more flexibility, e.g. by providing a simple way to run several services on different machines or to re-use existing services.
Service name | Description | FREE | PRO | FARM |
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wiki
|
The main application. It features two main modes: "web", for the connection to the client and "task" for any background processing and administrative purposes. It comes in different editions (FREE, PRO and FARM). | YES | YES | YES |
pdf
|
Allows to create PDF filesfrom wikipages | YES | YES | YES |
search
|
Allows to perform a fulltext search on the wiki content | YES | YES | YES |
formula
|
Allows to show mathematical and chemical formulas in the wiki content | NO | YES | YES |
collabpads
|
Allows for simultaneous editing of wikipages | NO | YES | YES |
collabpads-database
|
Stores the data for simultaneous editing sessions. | NO | YES | YES |
diagram
|
Allows to create and edit diagram images in the wiki content | NO | YES | YES |
pagepreview
|
Allows to show preview images of wikipages | YES | YES | YES |
cache
|
Supports application performance | YES | YES | YES |
database
|
Stores the application data | YES | YES | YES |
proxy
|
Manages the clients's access to the different services. Provides SSL capabilities | YES | YES | YES |
kerberos-proxy
|
Allows to set up a Kerberos-based authentication mechanism | NO | OPTIONAL | OPTIONAL |
Generic services that can be substituted by already available ones are
- database →Can be replaced by any version compatible MariaDB / MySQL server
- collabpads-database →Can be replaced by any version compatible MongoDB server
- cache →Can be replaced by any version compatible MemcacheD server
- search →Can be replaced by any version compatible OpenSearch server
- proxy -> Can be replaced by any appropriately configured Proxy server / Loadbalancer