RS-ACCESS-INSTANCE microservice

Overview

Access instance (or rs-access-instance) microservice manage the configuration of instance UI such as the portal. Regards has another microservice with similar functionalities, rs-access-project, with multitenant conpect to handle configuration of projects or tenant user UI.

There are two versions of this microservice. One (rs-access-instance) is compatible with toponym management and requires a postgres database with the postgis extension installed, and the other (rs-access-instance-light) is not compatible with a standard postgres database :

• rs-access-instance responsibilities :
  • handle the configuration of UI for the portal interface :
    • UI modules (portal menu and List of projects),
    • application's theme or layout
  • toponyms : create/search geographic locations in a database
• rs-access-instance-light responsibilities :
  • handle the configuration of UI for the portal interface :
    • UI modules (portal menu and List of projects),
    • application's theme or layout

Concept	Compatibility	Description
Multitenant	No	Can handle multiple tenants/projects
Vertical scalability	No	Do not uses Jobs system
Horizontal scalability	No	Service can not be deployed with multiple instances

You can learn how the service works with the How it works section.

How to use

You can learn how to operate with the microservice thanks to API Guides :

• Browse all REST API available endpoints.

How to access through UI

You can follow the User manuel to learn about the instance administrator UI related functionalities :

• How to configure Portal UI.

How to access source code

Microservice source code for rs-access-instance is available on Github

Microservice source code for rs-access-instance-light is available on Github

• uiconfiguration module source included in this microservice is available on Github
• toponyms-instance module source included in this microservice is available on Github