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                    <h1 class="hero-main-header">OpenStack and IDR Ansible Playbooks</h1>
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                    The Image Data Resource (IDR) infrastructure is managed using <a href="https://www.ansible.com/">Ansible</a>. This includes provisioning virtual resources on an <a href="https://www.openstack.org/">OpenStack</a> cloud at <a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/">EMBL-EBI</a>.
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                    Any queries should be sent to the <a href="https://lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ome-devel/">ome-devel@lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk mailing list</a>
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            <h2>Servers</h2>
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                        <p>The main <a href="/webclient/userdata/?experimenter=-1">production IDR</a> consists of 7 servers:</p>
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                            <li>Database (8 CPUs/32GB RAM): A dedicated <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> server .</li>
                            <li>OMERO read-write (16 CPUs/64GB RAM): Internal <a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/">OMERO.server and OMERO.web</a> with a highly customised configuration optimised for the data access patterns of the IDR.</li>
                            <li>OMERO read-only (8 CPUs/32GB RAM): 4 public read-only <a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/">OMERO.server and OMERO.web</a> with a highly customised configuration optimised for the data access patterns of the IDR.</li>
                            <li>Proxy: Front-end proxies that manage all public access to the IDR.
                            <a href="https://nginx.org/">Nginx</a> load-balances all public web access and incorporates an aggressive caching configuration to reduce the load on OMERO.
                            <a href="https://www.haproxy.org/">Haproxy</a> load-balances access to the OMERO API.</li>
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                        <p>The <a href="https://github.com/IDR/deployment/">IDR deployment GitHub repository</a> contains Ansible playbooks and full instructions for <a href="https://github.com/IDR/deployment/blob/master/docs/provisioning.md">provisioning resources</a> and <a href="https://github.com/IDR/deployment/blob/master/docs/deployment.md">deploying the IDR</a>, as well as our <a href="https://github.com/IDR/deployment/blob/master/docs/operating-procedures.md">internal operating procedures</a>.</p>
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