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.
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.
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.