Scaled Down Development Instances of Cobalt & Supporting Services

Dave Hallam

Hi,

Are there any guides for provisioning a version of Cobalt (albeit scaled-down) and the necessary supporting services (e.g. Cobalt modules, Novus Suite Architecture components) similar in concept to the Novus-In-a-Box (NIB)? I've seen references to CI environments so this may be possible.

I imagine that there will be a minimum set of components required for a basic Cobalt install and that there are hardware and software dependencies + installation guides (maybe even automated provisioning, e.g. via puppet, et al).

What can be done; what can't be done?

Many thanks,

Dave

Nidhi.Sen

Dave,

I suppose the answer is - depends on what you are looking to do.

Cobalt is a platform that can be utilized to get new products off the ground quickly by re-using prebuilt functionality. It includes a set of guiding principals ([Cobalt Application Framework][1]); deployable modules such as [Session management/Eventing/Delivery/Encryption][2]; hosted services such as [Data Room][3]; [Application Management Suite][4] for application deployment, monitoring and management; and developer tools.

The [Central Tech Cobalt Platform][5] hub page has more details on all of these.

So instead of thinking in terms of "installation" of Cobalt, I'd start more from a point of view of how specifically you want to use Cobalt.

If your aim is to do POCs on some of these modules/services, you don't really need provisioning - most cobalt services are multi-tenant, and as you mentioned you could use the CI environment - probably Legal Shared or Cobalt Services for this.

If you'd like a template that demonstartes implementation of Cobalt Guiding principals and TRAMS, you can pull down [HelloCobalt4J][6] or [HelloCobalt4Net][7] from the Corporate source. It has hooks into the TRAMS tooling for demonstartion purpose.

If you are looking for code on how to use services, you can check out the [Cobalt AppStarterKits][8] which demonstrates usage of some of these modules.

Hopefully this was helpful. For more questions, I'd suggest contacting the *DataRoom Tech Leads* or *Co-CommonModules-Dev* email group with your needs.




[1]: https://thehub.thomsonreuters.com/docs/DOC-562350
[2]: https://thehub.thomsonreuters.com/docs/DOC-674477
[3]: https://thehub.thomsonreuters.com/groups/data-room
[4]: https://thehub.thomsonreuters.com/groups/trams
[5]: https://thehub.thomsonreuters.com/groups/central-tech-cobalt-platform
[6]: https://components.thomsonreuters.com/marketplace/unique.do?id=336&pageID=6
[7]: https://components.thomsonreuters.com/marketplace/unique.do?id=347&pageID=6
[8]: https://thehub.thomsonreuters.com/docs/DOC-660352