Step-by-step guide to high availability with Decidim

[Jeanluc74]

Hello,

a step-by-step guide to put a Decidim site/s in high availability, with Ubuntu VMs for example, would be highly appreciated by me and maybe many others.
So, for example, an ipothesis would be a basic configuration with two Front-End Servers and a single Database Server or with two Front-End Servers and two Database Servers (the second for redundancy), with system configuration, best practices, etc.

Thank you,

Gian Luca

[andreslucena]

Moving this to the correct repository

Thanks for the report @Jeanluc74 !

FYI we're improving the installation story at #119

[davidbeig]

Hi @Jeanluc74 !

If you want to take a look at the installation with docker, you'll see that it allows non-technical users to create a decidim installation with one decidim container, and with several other containers based on the configuration. The user will be asked whether they have a database or not, where they want to store assets, etc.

But i believe you want a more challenging "guide" for Decidim? I believe in the decidim ecosystem there are multiple ways to handle the installation and there's no "better way" recommended by the Decidim team.

I believe this is an open approach that the companies working with Decidim should follow, but that the Decidim association or the product team is not really involved. Since they don't provide Decidim for others and are focused on the development of the product, not how it's delivered to end users... What do you think? @andreslucena

[Jeanluc74]

Hello @davidbeig ,

thank you for your reply, I understand your point of view. I'll try to explain mine.
Since there are some very useful step-by-step guides on how to install decidim, for example those provided by Platoniq, but each guide is oriented to an installation on a single Ubuntu VM (or, for example, a on hosting provider like Amazon AWS) , I thought it would be interesting to provide a guide to a more professional approach with a multiple VM installation for the Front-end and Back-end.
To be honest I did not refer to multiple Docker containers in my issue, not a big fan of it, but to multiple VM.

Thank you!

Gian Luca

Hi @Jeanluc74 !

If you want to take a look at the installation with docker, you'll see that it allows non-technical users to create a decidim installation with one decidim container, and with several other containers based on the configuration. The user will be asked whether they have a database or not, where they want to store assets, etc.

But i believe you want a more challenging "guide" for Decidim? I believe in the decidim ecosystem there are multiple ways to handle the installation and there's no "better way" recommended by the Decidim team.

I believe this is an open approach that the companies working with Decidim should follow, but that the Decidim association or the product team is not really involved. Since they don't provide Decidim for others and are focused on the development of the product, not how it's delivered to end users... What do you think? @andreslucena