System environment for OSIP
Infrastructure layer: the key to flexibility
A typical system environment for our framework would consist of several Linux servers (Ubuntu LTS). However, we’ve decided to pack all our components in Docker containers (https://www.docker.com/). This gives us the ability to run our environment on many different types of servers, as long as there is a docker instance or a similar runtime.
Orchestration
To achieve a high availability of our platform, we suggest the use of Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/). However, this is not mandatory and must be provided by the customer.
Move to the cloud
By using Docker and Kubernetes, we are by default platform agnostic. OSIP can be installed and operated on all kind of environments. We suggest running it in a cloud environment, because we believe that modern clod offerings are the most secure environments a healthcare institution can afford. However, all common deployment choices are supported i.e. on-premise, private cloud on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or anything else.
Serverless
If you decide to run part of OSIP in a Microsoft Azure Cloud environment, we can use some native serverless components. Usually these perform better than the same system in a Docker container.
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B. Innovation and Open Technology
D. Outside the current scope of OSIP
F. System environment for OSIP