Initial skeleton of deployment documentation

stevepiercy · stevepiercy · commit 86ba8aa26992 · 2024-04-19T13:27:33.000-06:00
diff --git a/docs/deployment/backup.md b/docs/deployment/backup.md
diff --git a/docs/deployment/components.md b/docs/deployment/components.md
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+---
+myst:
+  html_meta:
+    "description": "Components of a Plone 6 application for deployment"
+    "property=og:description": "Components of a Plone 6 application for deployment"
+    "property=og:title": "Components of a Plone 6 application for deployment"
+    "keywords": "Plone, deployment, components, backend, volto, fronted, TLS termination proxy, load balancer, router, database, mail service, optimization, maintenance"
+---
+
+(deployment-components-label)=
+
+# Components
+
+This page in the deployment guide covers the components in a Plone application deployment.
+The components can be broken down into those that are required, recommended, and optional.
+
+
+(deployment-required-components-label)=
+
+## Required components
+
+You need the following components to deploy a Plone application.
+
+-   {term}`Plone backend`
+-   {term}`Volto` as the default {term}`Frontend` for Plone
+-   {term}`TLS termination proxy`
+-   {term}`Load balancer` or router
+-   Database
+-   Mail service
+-   Optimization tasks
+    -   Database parameters
+    -   https://5.docs.plone.org/manage/deploying/performance/index.html
+-   Maintenance tasks
+    -   Database backup
+    -   Packing database - https://5.docs.plone.org/manage/deploying/packing.html
+    -   Monitoring
+    -   Log rotation
+    -   Firewall
+    -   Attack protection
+    -   DNS
+    -   Host name resolution
+
+
+(deployment-recommended-components-label)=
+
+## Recommended components
+
+Recommended components, although not required, will help with the performance and user experience of your Plone application.
+
+-   HTTP caching
+
+
+(deployment-optional-components-label)=
+
+## Optional components
+
+-   Search
+
diff --git a/docs/deployment/continuous-integration-and-deployment.md b/docs/deployment/continuous-integration-and-deployment.md
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+---
+myst:
+  html_meta:
+    "description": "Continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for a Plone 6 application"
+    "property=og:description": "Continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for a Plone 6 application"
+    "property=og:title": "Continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for a Plone 6 application"
+    "keywords": "Plone, Continuous integration, CI, continuous deployment, CD, pipeline, images, GitHub, actions, workflows"
+---
+
+(deployment-continuous-integration-and-deployment-label)=
+
+# Continuous integration and deployment
+
+This page in the deployment guide covers {term}`continuous integration` (CI) and {term}`continuous deployment` (CD) for a Plone 6 application.
+
+
+## Deployment pipeline
+
+
+## Build images
diff --git a/docs/deployment/index.md b/docs/deployment/index.md
@@ -4,22 +4,28 @@ myst:
     "description": "Deployment of Plone 6"
     "property=og:description": "Deployment of Plone 6"
     "property=og:title": "Deployment of Plone 6"
-    "keywords": "Plone, deployment, automation"
+    "keywords": "Plone, deployment, server, environment, continuous integration, continuous deployment, automation, tuning, optimatization, orchestration, Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes"
 ---
 
 (deployment-label)=
 
 # Deployment
 
+This part of the documentation describes how to deploy your Plone 6 application.
+This how-to guide covers the components of a Plone application, a server environment, continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD), and orchestration for a deployment.
+It is not comprehensive of all ways to deploy Plone, but covers common usage.
+
+
 ```{todo}
-Intro to chapter "deployment"
+Find a better home for Caching, as it goes deep into explanation with a little bit of how-to guide.
 ```
 
 ```{toctree}
 :maxdepth: 2
 
-provision
-scaling
-backup
+components
+server-environment
+continuous-integration-and-deployment
+orchestration
 caching/index
 ```
diff --git a/docs/deployment/orchestration.md b/docs/deployment/orchestration.md
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+---
+myst:
+  html_meta:
+    "description": "Orchestration of a Plone 6 application"
+    "property=og:description": "Orchestration of a Plone 6 application"
+    "property=og:title": "Orchestration of a Plone 6 application"
+    "keywords": "Plone, orchestration, scaling, Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes"
+---
+
+(deployment-orchestration-label)=
+
+# Orchestration
+
+This page covers orchestration of a Plone 6 application.
+
+The recommended procedure for Plone 6 is through the use of Docker Swarm.
+
+```{seealso}
+Kubernetes is another orchestration option currently under development and testing in the [Plone Helm Charts](https://github.com/plone/helm-charts) GitHub repository.
+```
diff --git a/docs/deployment/provision.md b/docs/deployment/provision.md
diff --git a/docs/deployment/scaling.md b/docs/deployment/scaling.md
diff --git a/docs/deployment/server-environment.md b/docs/deployment/server-environment.md
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+---
+myst:
+  html_meta:
+    "description": "Prepare a server environment for a deployment of Plone 6"
+    "property=og:description": "Prepare a server environment for a deployment of Plone 6"
+    "property=og:title": "Prepare a server environment for a deployment of Plone 6"
+    "keywords": "Plone, deployment, server, environment"
+---
+
+(deployment-server-environment-label)=
+
+# Server environment
+
+This page in the deployment guide covers how to prepare a server environment for a Plone 6 deployment.
+You will need to prepare your environment with the following items.
+
+```{note}
+Should we reuse or update {ref}`install-packages-hardware-requirements-label`?
+```
+
+-   server instance with an operating system that Plone can run on
+-   RAM
+-   disk
+-   SSH key
+-   preparation for orchestration
diff --git a/docs/glossary.md b/docs/glossary.md
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ Traefik Proxy
     [Traefik Proxy](https://traefik.io/traefik/) is an open-source reverse proxy and load balancer, suitable for containerized architectures.
 
 Volto
-    [Volto](https://github.com/plone/volto) is a React-based frontend for the Plone CMS.
+    [Volto](https://github.com/plone/volto) is a React-based frontend for Plone.
     It is the default user interface for Plone 6.
 
     The other frontend is {term}`Classic UI`.
@@ -730,4 +730,42 @@ husky
 Jest
     [Jest](https://jestjs.io/) is a JavaScript testing framework.
     Volto uses Jest for unit tests.
+
+Plone
+    Plone is an open-source content management system (CMS) with over 20 years of stability and security wrapped in a modern, powerful, user-centric package.
+    It continues to set the standard for content management systems by offering the most functionality and customization out of the box.
+
+backend
+Plone backend
+    Plone's backend includes a content management system, a REST API, and {term}`Classic UI` as a {term}`frontend`.
+
+frontend
+Plone frontend
+    A frontend consists of the user interface elements of a web application.
+    Beginning with Plone 6, the default frontend is {term}`Volto`.
+    {term}`Classic UI` is a secondary frontend that is part of the {term}`Plone backend`.
+    
+TLS
+Transport Layer Security
+    Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network.
+    
+    ```{seealso}
+    [Transport Layer Security](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Transport_Layer_Security) article from MDN.
+    ```
+
+TLS termination proxy
+    A {term}`TLS` termination proxy is a proxy server that acts as an intermediary point between client and server applications.
+    It is used to terminate or establish TLS tunnels by decrypting or encrypting communications.
+
+Load balancer
+    A load balancer acts as a traffic proxy and distributes network or application traffic across endpoints on a number of servers.
+
+CI
+continuous integration
+    Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of integrating all your code changes into the main branch of a shared source code repository early and often, automatically testing each change when you commit or merge them, and automatically kicking off a build.
+
+CD
+continuous deployment
+continuous delivery
+    Continuous deployment or continuous delivery is a software development practice that works in conjunction with {term}`CI` to automate the infrastructure provisioning and application release process.
 ```
