[ome-devel] Apache and MacOS X 10.9 support

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Jean-Marie & everyone,

> This effort will enable, among other things, more flexibility in
> dependencies management and improve deployment. As part of this work,
> we are considering dropping support for Apache

I think this decision makes a lot of sense -- especially if the OME team
continues to pursue using Docker images as a supported way to get an OMERO
system up and running in production. This would allow a much narrower focus
on supported technology stacks. E.g.: the Discourse forum software (
http://discourse.org/) ships as a Docker container as its sole distribution
mechanism, and it works incredibly well, completely painless to get up and
running, as well as offering one-click upgrades. Docker would also provide
a way to deploy OMERO on Windows and macOS boxes. :-)

Regards,
Curtis

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Jean-Marie Burel (Staff) <
j.burel at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> One of the efforts of the OMERO 5.3.0 development work is on separating
> OMERO.web from the OMERO.server package.
> This effort will enable, among other things, more flexibility in
> dependencies management and improve deployment.
> As part of this work, we are considering dropping support for Apache,
> mainly to balance resources to maintain our Continuous Integration system
> with core development work. There is always a tension between rapid
> development of new functionality and robust, reliable testing.
>
> Unfortunately, for technical reason, we do not have any statistics for Web
> server usage. From the information
> we managed to collect, Nginx has been the chosen option.
>
> So please do let us know if dropping support for Apache will be a major
> blocker for deploying OMERO at your site.
> If your organisation's policies only allow Apache to be used as the
> external-facing web-server you should configure Apache to proxy connections
> to an Nginx instance running on your OMERO server i.e. use Apache as a
> reverse proxy. For more details see https://httpd.apache.org/docs/
> current/mod/mod_proxy.html.
>
> In OMERO 5.3, we will no longer test the server deployment on Mac OS X
> version 10.9.
> This version no longer has security support. The deployment will be tested
> on version 10.10, 10.11 and 10.12.
> The change should have a limited impact since it is not recommended to use
> MacOS X for server deployment other that for development.
> Mac OS X version 10.9 will still be supported for client use.
>
> Thanks for your constant support.
>
> Regards
>
> The OME team
>
>
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