Deploy Alfresco repository with enterprise license

Alfresco content repository Docker images come with an embedded license which last only 2 days. If you’ve built a custom image, it may have a one year license but in order to change it you would need to build a new image. You can also configure this chart so the license is instead read from a kubernetes secret so that, when it’s time to renew the license you only need to update that secret.

This configuration relies on 2 steps:

• creating a secret to hold the license
• configuring the chart to use that secret

Create a kubernetes secret to store the license

Make sure your license available is readable and you have appropriate kubernetes access in order to create a secret in the ACS namespace where you want to deploy the helm release.

ACS_NAMESPACE=acs
kubectl create secret generic mylicense \
  --namespace $ACS_NAMESPACE \
  --from-file ~/Downloads/Alfresco-ent72-foobar.lic

Configure the chart to leverage that secret

In the chart value file add the following:

alfresco-repository:
  configuration:
    repository:
      existingSecrets:
        - name: mylicense
          key: Alfresco-ent72-foobar.lic
          purpose: acs-license

License files for your Alfresco enterprise subscription can be obtained from the Hyland Community portal

Applying a new license (in case this is not a fresh deployment)

Before your license expires you will want to apply a new one. It’s actually very easy do to so. All you need to do is overwrite the secret you created on previous deployment. You can use the exact same command just replacing the license file with the new one. Once that’s done you can refresh the license from the Alfresco admin console and use the “Apply a new license” feature (check the admin doc