Deployment

AWS

It is possible to deploy Gentics Mesh in AWS using the Elastic Container Service (ECS). It is recommended to use Elastic Filesystem (EFS) to persist the file uploads. We also recommend to use Amazon Elasticsearch Service to provide search functionality.

Kubernetes

We provide a Helm Chart for Gentics Mesh as a premium feature.

Linux (via systemd)

Gentics Mesh can quickly be installed on a Linux by registering a systemd service.

First you need to install Java 11 on your server. After that step you can download the Gentics Mesh server jar to your installation folder.

Store the service file in the same folder.

mesh-server.service

[Unit]
Description=Gentics Mesh Server
Wants=basic.target
After=basic.target network.target syslog.target

[Service]
User=node
Restart=on-failure
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=512m -Dstorage.diskCache.bufferSize=512 -jar mesh-server.jar
WorkingDirectory=/opt/mesh-server
LimitMEMLOCK=infinity
LimitNOFILE=65536
LimitAS=infinity
LimitRSS=infinity
LimitCORE=infinity

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The given limits are mandatory. Especially the LimitNOFILE setting must be set to prevent database issues.

You can also change the Wants and After setting if you run Elasticsearch on the same server. In that case it is recommended to start Gentics Mesh after Elasticsearch has been started.

Wants=elasticsearch.service
After=elasticsearch.service

Finally you can register the systemd service file:

systemctl enable /opt/mesh-server/mesh-server.service

Start the server:

service mesh-server start

Docker

We provide example docker-compose stacks for Gentics Mesh which show how Gentics Mesh and Elasticsearch can work together using Docker.

Docker settings

Single Node

The single node stack contains the following components:

Gentics Mesh
Elasticsearch

Full example on GitHub

docker-compose.yml

version: "3"
services:

  mesh:
    image: gentics/mesh:0.31.0
    container_name: mesh-server
    environment:
      - MESH_ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://elasticsearch:9200
      - MESH_ELASTICSEARCH_START_EMBEDDED=false
      - MESH_AUTH_KEYSTORE_PASS=changeme
      - MESH_MONITORING_HTTP_HOST=0.0.0.0
    stop_grace_period: 5m
    ports:
      - '8080:8080'
      - '127.0.0.1:8081:8081'
    volumes:
      - mesh-data:/graphdb
      - mesh-uploads:/uploads
      - mesh-keystore:/keystore
    ulimits:
      nofile:
        soft: 20000
        hard: 40000

  elasticsearch:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-oss:6.6.2
    container_name: mesh-elasticsearch
    environment:
      - discovery.type=single-node
      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
    stop_grace_period: 5m
    ports:
      - '127.0.0.1:9200:9200'
    volumes:
    - esdata:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
    ulimits:
      nofile:
        soft: 65536
        hard: 65536
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1

volumes:
  esdata:
    driver: local
  mesh-keystore:
    driver: local
  mesh-data:
    driver: local
  mesh-uploads:
    driver: local

The stop_grace_period setting is important to allow for a clean shutdown of Gentics Mesh.

Cluster

The cluster stack contains the following components:

Gentics Mesh (Three instances)
Elasticsearch
Nginx (Loadbalancer over three Gentics Mesh instances)
Gentics Mesh Backup Instance (Optional)

Full example on GitHub

Deployment

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Kubernetes

Linux (via systemd)

Docker

Single Node

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