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broadleaf-starter-kit

Version 1.3-39p

Install

This is example of Broadleaf eCommerce applications with SolrCloud as a search engine Qubell Adaptive PaaS.

Features

  • Install Broadleaf DemoSite with Admin panel on one or more Tomcat nodes in parallel
  • Install Haproxy as load balance for application nodes
  • Install SolrCloud with Zookeeper ensemble and point application to Zookeper hosts
  • Scale app and down application cluster
  • Rebuild application by switching git branch

Configurations

  • Broadleaf 3.1.0 , Amazon Linux (us-east-1/ami-1ba18d72), AWS EC2 m1.small, ec2-user

  • Broadleaf 3.1.0 , CentOS 6.4 (us-east-1/ami-bf5021d6), AWS EC2 m1.small, root

  • Broadleaf 3.1.0 , Ubuntu 12.04 (us-east-1/ami-967edcff), AWS EC2 m1.small, ubuntu

  • Broadleaf 3.1.0 , Ubuntu 10.04 (us-east-1/ami-9f3906f6), AWS EC2 m1.small, ubuntu

  • Tomcat 6, MySQL 5, HAProxy 1.4 Solr 4.4

Pre-requisites

  • Configured Cloud Account a in chosen environment
  • Either installed Chef on target compute OR launch under root
  • All pre-requisites from the components above

How Does this Kit Work?

Broadleaf Starter Kit has three main components:

  • Broadleaf Demo site - The Heat Clinic eCommerce store.
  • Broadleaf admin panel - The Administration Panel for easy Broadleaf catalog management.
  • Solr Cloud Search Engine - A search engine that indexes and executes search queries from Broadleaf catalog. By default Broadleaf use embeded Solr support. But in our demo we setup a full Solr cluster - 4 nodes 2 shards with Zookeeper ensemble - 3 nodes. We use our fork Broadleaf DemoSite https://github.com/qubell-bazaar/DemoSite.It contain: - preconfigured archive with solr collection files
    - changed sources for support mysql and solr cloud

Setup

You will need to set up the following in order to use Broadleaf Starter Kit:

  • A Qubell Adaptive PaaS account
  • An Amazon AWS account
  • Access to git repository with CRS sources (optional)

Please refer to the steps below for getting set up.

Step-by-step Setup Guide