As publishing services adopt more flexible and scalable infrastructures, the containerization OJS emerges as an effective solution to simplify the installation, management, and maintenance of this publishing platform.
Using containers offers several advantages: it reduces dependency conflicts, facilitates portability, ensures consistent configurations, improves scalability, and simplifies tasks such as updates, backups, and recovery.
This workshop will combine theory and practice, providing knowledge, recipes, and best practices to highlight the benefits of managing OJS through containers. It will begin with an overview of container advantages and an introduction to the basic concepts of containerization (focused on Docker and Docker Compose), followed by a demonstration of how to deploy OJS using the available official images. After reviewing the current state and roadmap of the official containers, the session will cover key aspects such as updating OJS, managing the environment, and performing backups.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Understand the basic concepts of containerization technology
- Apply this technology to their own services and learn how to migrate to Docker
- Maintain and update their services using Docker and Docker Compose
- Build their own images
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