Finding a place to Host your Portal

The DivSeek Canada Portal is being designed to run within a Docker Compose deployed system of Docker containers when the application is run on a Linux server or virtual machine.

Platform Requirements:

• An operating system able to install docker and run instances; Linux preferred.
• The ability to expose ports to the outside world.

• Enough physical space to house the website containing your data. You can choose to keep all of the following on a single partition of at least 720Gb or to separate into individual partitions as follows:

  • Root partition: at least 20Gb
  • Docker partition: at least 200Gb for docker
  • Each Crop partition: at least 500Gb

• Enough processing power to quickly deliver pages (at least 4 core, 6 GB RAM) with additional processing power required for analysis completed via Galaxy.

Host-specific Instructions:

• ComputeCanada OpenStack Cloud setup