Dab Tech Solutions
Presenting dhis2-tools-dab: an improved DHIS2 infrastructure management platform
With the more demanding need of reliability of critical infrastructures, security is a even more important aspect to take into account.
The DHIS2 community has benefited years with the support of the DHIS2 team thanks to their official guidelines, tutorials, academy and discussion groups.
The origins
Since the beginning, the robustness of the platform was taken seriously and great efforts were made to make not only the DHIS2 system more stable, but also its infrastructure more resilient.
And from this effort, Bob Jolliffe created the so famous dhis2-tools-ng: a suite of bash scripts with the goal of create a robust and secure DHIS2 infrastructure with ease of deployment and management.
The tool is actually used in several countries where DHIS2 is deployed.
With the years, came along the support of SolidLines, a company that provides DHIS2 as a Service: they have forked and added more functionalities to the dhis2-tools-ng suite.
But the explosion of DHIS2 implementations around the world has made hard to keep up with the increase demand of stability and security.
The new infrastructure management platform
It’s from that need that Dab Solutions has created a fork of the dhis2-tools-ng suite and created a new suite of tools that bring the following new features, among others:
- Improved output for better error handling and progress tracking;
- Services credentials handling which allows easy credentials management;
- Possibility to specify different Ubuntu version for each container;
- LXD cluster support which allows containers to be spread across multiple physical servers;
- Upgraded LXD from 4.0 stable to 5.0 stable;
- Additional container types (logs centralization and Security Information Event Monitoring system).
The tool is called dhis2-tools-dab and can be found on Github: the tool is free to grab, use and improve.
More guides will follow on how to use and configure the new features, so stay tuned!
If you need more information or need help, contact us!.
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