Dataverse 4.9.x & Solr 7

[bricas]

With Dataverse 4.9, the Solr version changed from 4.x to the latest 7.x version.

Is there any plan to get these versions into the docker setup?

[pdurbin]

I just noticed that in a792aea @4tikhonov wrote "Please note, if you need to change version of Dataverse, it's in dataversedock/step2.sh (version="4.8.6")" in the README. As you know, some upgrades require more than simply changing a version number. In this case, Solr has to be upgraded. So maybe that line should be made more clear. Hopefully it's true most of the time? I don't have enough experience with Docker or Kubernetes to know how upgrades are handled.

[4tikhonov]

@bricas Yes, we already noticed that SOLR should be upgraded. At the moment we're busy with other priorities in DataverseEU project so we'll do it probably in the beginning of September.

[xibriz]

I have just made a successful deployment on our Kubernetes cluster using GitLab CI, so thanks for the great work :)

I'm going to do the upgrade now so if you will accept pull requests on that I can contribute if I manage to get it working. Also going to look at Secrets.

[4tikhonov]

Great, I've merged it.

[pdurbin]

It looks like @xibriz just created pull request #7 to upgrade to Solr 7.3.0 and Dataverse 4.9.2.

[4tikhonov]

I'm back from holidays and tested upgraded 4.9.2 from Docker. I've fixed some small issues but it seems to work well!

[pdurbin]

@4tikhonov great! In last week's community call I think you said you had some trouble with Solr 7 but then you figured it out. There was some discussion at IQSS/dataverse#4966 (comment) and I'm wondering if this issue should be closed. No pressure. Up to you! Maybe @bricas can try out the new version as time allows.

Also, can you please read the comment I left at nds-org/ndslabs-dataverse#8 (comment) and leave a follow up comment there about images on Docker Hub? I'm happy to write more and explain more if it's confusing. Thanks!

[xoroz]

I tried a clean setup with version 4.15 and it did not work.
any idea if it will work anytime soon?

thank you

[pdurbin]

@xoroz hi! I was just talking to @4tikhonov last night and he'll be updating this dataverse-docker repo for sure but in the meantime you might want to try the Dataverse 4.15 Docker image over at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-kubernetes/releases/tag/v4.15

[poikilotherm]

Please be aware that you need to provide some env vars and file mounts by yourself when not using Kubernetes with the dataverse-k8s image.

If you need docker-compose to avoid Minikube or similar, feel free to create an issue + pull request.