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Alison Wizard docker image includes an ACME tenant inside.

You must overwrite that definition to include your own company or project tenants.

Wizard can manage several tenants, each one of them defining logo, styles, certificate filter, and validation. A detailed description of validation can be found in the Debbie module.

Environment Variables

Configure the following variables to customize your wizard instance.

Volumes

The following volumes can be mounted on the Docker image to overwrite the variables of each defined tenant.

You can download this Images and Languages file, which includes language, instructions, and images. This structure can change between different wizard versions, so you can also extract the same contains from your downloaded docker image. It's recommended to check this before if you decide to customize the content.

├── debbie
├── docker-compose.yml
└── wizard
    ├── alison-sdk
    ├── images
    ├── locales
    ├── logs
    └── tenants

Multi-Product

Available from version 1.9.x, it is possible to define the following variables and folders. This allows to change the name of the product and images.

Package Installers distribution

To distribute your Desktop package, you must configure a public site. That site is defined by the variable BASE_INSTALLERS_PATH.

├── 3.1.0
│   ├── <PACKAGE_NAME>-Installer-3.1.0.exe
│   ├── <PACKAGE_NAME>-Installer-3.1.0.pkg
│   ├── ...
└── 3.1.2
    ├── <PACKAGE_NAME>-Installer-3.1.2.exe
    ├── <PACKAGE_NAME>-Installer-3.1.2.pkg
    ├── ...
    └── ...

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Overwrite default content

It's possible to overwrite the default content distributed into the container. A structure like the following is suggested to publish all the information.

└── config
    ├── tenants
    │   ├── acme
    │   ├── looney
    │   └── ...
    ├── alison-sdk
    ├── images
    └── locales
        ├── en
        ├── es
        └── ...

The product file describes the list of products available for each platform.

This file was introduced from version 2.0.3.0.

windows:
  - id: win64_install
    name: Alison Desktop (x64) Installer
    package: Alison-Desktop-Installer-{VERSION}.exe
  - id: win64_portable
    name: Alison Desktop (x64) Portable
    package: Alison-Desktop-Portable-WIN-{VERSION}.zip
macos:
  - id: mac_pkg
    name: Alison Desktop (MacOS) Installer
    package: Alison-Desktop-Installer-{VERSION}.pkg    
  - id: mac_portable
    name: Alison Desktop (MacOS) Portable
    package: Alison-Desktop-Portable-OSX-{VERSION}.tgz    
linux:
  - id: lin_deb
    name: Alison Desktop (Debian) Installer
    package: Alison-Desktop-Installer-{VERSION}.deb
  - id: lin_rpm
    name: Alison Desktop (RedHat) Installer
    package: Alison-Desktop-Installer-{VERSION}.rpm
  - id: lin_portable
    name: Alison Desktop (Linux) Portable
    package: Alison-Desktop-Portable-LNX-{VERSION}.tgz

This file defines version to be applied for each Tenant.

This file was introduced from version 2.0.3.0.

default:
  windows: "3.4.0"
  linux: "3.4.0"
  macos: "3.4.0"
acme: 3.2.1
looney:
  windows: "4.0.0"
  linux: "3.4.0"
  macos: "4.4.0"

Each tenant has its own configuration, and every Alison Wizard docker instance can manage one or several tenants. 

The configuration file allows defining all the behavior of the Wizard for each tenant. It is easy to make changes in the operation of the application. It requires to reload the Alison Wizard container image to apply any change made on these files.

The following files define tenant configuration and must be customized or replaces.

Create a new Tenant

The best way to create a new tenant is to download Lonnie example tenant configuration or copy ACME included tenant distributed on the last version of Docker Image, modify its name and apply changes on each related file.

Package version to download

License

Alison Wizard has a preinstalled universal license valid for up to 1 year.

To obtain a full license, contact CertiSur team (support@certisur.com) and inform the domain list (from all environments: development, staging, production) where the container will be published.

CertiSur will return a definitive license covering all the domains informed with a 3 years validity.

The license file must be included in each tenant configuration folder.

Plugins

These optional components may be installed on some browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer) to allow a different communication between the browser and Alison Desktop.

Plugins must be enabled by domain, similar to license.

Alison Wizard includes a healthcheck URL.

<wizard_url>/healthcheck

This URL should be filtered by your reverse proxy server if you consider that the provided information can be used in the wrong way.

Currently, JSON response only includes one instance into an Array, with the following information:

[
  {"version":"1.9.3.2",
   "running_time":8358,
   "instance_id":"Wizard_98913_1605797341"}
]

• version: current wizard image version,
• running_time: time in seconds from its start,
• instance_id: unique ID for identifying different running instances.