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Deployment

These pages explain how to deploy MedCo in different scenarios.
Each deployment scenario corresponds to a deployment profile, as described below. All these instructions use the deployment scripts from the medco repository.
If you are new to MedCo…
… and want to try to deploy the system on a single machine to test it, you should should follow the Local Test Deployment guide.
… and want to create or join a MedCo network, you should follow the Network Deployment guide.
… and want to develop around MedCo, you should follow the Local Development Deployment guide.

Deployment Profiles

A deployment profile is composed of two things:
  • deployment files medco/deployments/<profile name>/: docker-compose file and parameters like ports to expose, log level, etc.
  • configuration files medco/deployments/<profile name>/configuration/: files mounted in the docker containers, containing the cryptographic keys, the certificates, etc.
Some profiles are provided by default, for development or testing purposes. Those should not be used in a production scenario with real data, as the private keys are set by default, thus not private. Other types of profiles must generated using the script in medco/scripts/network-profile-tool/.
The different profiles are the following:

test-local-3nodes (Local Test Deployment)

  • for test on a single machine (used by the MedCo live demo)
  • 3 nodes on any host
  • using the latest release of the source codes
  • no debug logging
  • profile pre-generated
  • for test or production deployment on several different hosts
  • a single node on a host part of a MedCo network
  • using the latest release of the source codes
  • no debug logging
  • profile must be generated prior to use with the provided scripts

dev-local-3nodes (Local Development Deployment)

  • for software development
  • 3 nodes on the local host
  • using development version of source codes
  • debug logging enabled
  • profile pre-generated