Hosting

Keycloak

The PDC API requires a Keycloak instance
to handle authentication.

We suggest creating a second realm named pdc
to separate Keycloak administrator accounts from PDC accounts.

service

The PDC API is a fairly standard Node.js application.
It needs no special operating system permissions,
and should be run as a non-root user.

Add the environment variables in .env.example
however your hosting environment needs.

Be sure to set NODE_ENV=production,
as recommended by the
Node.js documentation
and the
Express documentation.

DigitalOcean App Platform

The PDC API can be deployed on
DigitalOcean App Platform:

Although specified in the template,
the API cannot be used with a DigitalOcean dev database,
because dev databases do not allow schema
creation
and the PDC requires PostgreSQL schemas;
the migrate job will fail with a permission denied error.
Either delete the dev database and add a prod database with the same name during app creation,
upgrade the generated dev database to a managed database after creating the app,
or delete the dev database and configure the environment variables with credentials for a database hosted elsewhere.

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