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How to Achiev High Availability with Alfresco Community Edition in an Enterprise Setting

KarekMedAM

I recently installed the latest version of Alfresco Content Services Community Edition, and it appears to be a strong contender for enterprise-level use. However, unlike the Enterprise Edition, the Community Edition does not natively support clustering, which limits options for achieving high availability directly within the platform.

Given this limitation, I’m interested in exploring the best methods for implementing high availability with Alfresco Community. Could you provide guidance on recommended architectures or approaches that would allow the Community Edition to perform reliably at an enterprise level? Specifically, any insights on third-party tools or configurations that can help manage redundancy, failover, and load balancing effectively would be highly appreciated.

Thnak you

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WilliamSilva-br

We work with Alfresco Community on several successful projects in Brazil and these issues are not limiting.

WilliamSilva-br

A well - defined project within a good architectural foundation is enough.
 Tell us more about your project so I can help.

KarekMedAM

@WilliamSilva-brThank you for sharing your experience.

In my case, I'm setting the Alfresco Content Community for an enterprise that has a lot of critical documents (around 80 TB) and they want the architecture to be highly available. I thought for clustering, so when one node get down the system will continue working. (eliminate the single point of frailer) However clustering is only supported in the enterprise edition. Long story short, I want to ensure the enterprise that their documents are secure, redundant, and accessible 24/7.

What is the best architecture to go for in such a scenario? and is there any recommendations on setting ACS community for a large company.

Thank you,

Regards.

WilliamSilva-br

1- In my case, I'm setting the Alfresco Content Community for an enterprise that has a lot of critical documents (around 80 TB).:

R-
In this case, you need to know the size of the documents and what the folder structure will be like.
Once the folder structure is created and the documents are ready, the ideal is to have a front end (research portal), using CMIS for document findability.
Note: Tomcat + Solr uses memory in search and indexing.

douglascrp

Hello.

You should be checking the following addon: https://github.com/aldica/aldica

KarekMedAM

Thank you @douglascrp, this really looks promising since I'm aiming for horizontal scaling.

So, If I got it right, this is an alternative of the clustering module in alfresco enterprise. I would appreciate any recommendations on how to use it; also is it recommended to switch the installation to docker or I can continue with the manual installation (with zip file).
Thank you in advance.

douglascrp

Yes, it is an anternative, and you can use with with docker or not.

But pay attention to the compatibility with alfresco versions. I believe it was not updated yet. @afaust Right?

KarekMedAM

I'm using the latest version 23.0. but in the documentation I don't see that it's compatible. besides that, It only provide the installation via docker, is it supported even with manual installation?