Deploy authoring and live environments with Docker Compose

We can use Docker Compose scripts to to set up a simple production environment, consisting of an authoring environment and a live environment.

A live environment includes the capabilities required for a running WebSphere Commerce production site and serve real shopper traffic.

An Authoring environment includes extra capabilities, where site administrators or business users can make changes to the store, and then test and preview the changes. Changes can be propagated to the live environment. The authoring environment also has workspaces enabled, allowing business users to control site changes before the changes are propagated to the live environment.

We deploy an authoring environment to include the search-master node, and connect the authoring environment to a staging database. We deploy a live environment to include the search-repeater and search-slave nodes, and connect the live environment to a production database



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