Tue, December 16, 2025

Migration: JudaicaLink Labs was containerized

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Alongside the move to SOLR, the whole stack behind JudaicaLink Labs was packaged into Docker containers.

The previous setup ran directly on a server, configured by hand over the years. That made deployment fragile and slow to reproduce. Splitting the stack into containers — the Django application, the loaders and generators, Pubby, Fuseki, SOLR — makes it possible to bring up a working environment from a checkout instead of a memory of past configuration steps, and to change one part without risking the rest.

This was groundwork for the move to Frankfurt as much as an improvement on its own: a container setup is far easier to hand over, inspect, or run somewhere else than a server that grew organically.