This section helps you to install Alfresco Content Services (ACS), additional software, and modules.
Content Services consists of a number of modules that need to be deployed and configured together, to form the complete services platform. This provides customers with the flexibility to configure their deployment architecture in the way that is consistent with their IT strategy.
Alfresco deployment requires a number of infrastructure components to be in place, on which the core platform components are installed, and extended by several optional components which provide additional services.
The following diagram shows the key components of a typical Content Services installation:
Installation can be done manually, but Alfresco also provides a number of installation and deployment scripts for the most commonly used deployment tools to help customers accelerate the deployment process.