Deploying Inferno

Basics

Deployments of Inferno are based on the test kit template. This template contains a docker-compose.yml file that can run all of the services inferno needs.

At a minimum, deploying inferno involves the following:

  • git clone the repository you want to deploy (or get it onto your server in some other way)
  • run setup.sh to pull & build the needed docker images and run database migrations
  • run docker compose up -d to start all of the services in the background

Services

By default, a deployment of Inferno includes the following services:

  • nginx - A reverse proxy which handles sending requests to the correct services
  • inferno - The inferno web process which serves Inferno’s static assets and the JSON API
  • worker - The inferno web process which actually executes tests
  • redis - Redis handles communication between the inferno web and worker processes
  • validator_service - A JSON API wrapper around the HL7 FHIR validator which Inferno uses to validate FHIR resources
  • fhir_validator_app - (Optional) A web front end for the validator service which allows users to easily perform standalone FHIR resource validation. Nothing depends on this service, so it can be safely removed from docker-compose.yml if you don’t need to provide standalone FHIR resource validation.

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