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Overview:

The xnat-setup script creates an XNAT Docker stack and all the necessary software, maintenance scripts and file structures required for an XNAT server. A docker container is similar to a Virtual Machine, therefore it does not affect the host computer and agnostic to the operating system of the host computer.

XNAT setup contains many scripts and tools to ensure an easily maintainable XNAT server, with many maintenance scripts included and designed for large-scale XNAT servers. Everything is designed for automatic cleaning, backup, updates of software and monitoring of the server.

An overview of software installed and the file structure can be found here

Requirements:

OS: Linux - recommend Ubuntu 24.04. Mac is possible using Docker.
Docker: Docker Installation Instructions

Definitions:

XNAT: an extensible open-source imaging informatics software platform dedicated to imaging-based research. XNAT is a Tomcat web application with a Postgresql database backend. Users interact with XNAT via a web user interface.

Docker: Docker is a technology that enables software and servers to be packaged into lightweight virtual machines - the software, operating system and dependencies are packaged into 'images' and these images can be run in 'containers'.

Some important developer notes...