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Table of contents

• Introduction

• Assumptions

• Timeline

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• for community transition to Eureka

• Architecture support given a transition in Sunflower

• Next steps

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• Appendices

Introduction

There is community momentum toward the Eureka environment, and it was extensively discussed in 2024. There will also be significant benefit from well coordinated migration to the new platform and quick consolidation on just one platform. EBSCO plans to shift their support from the Okapi-based FOLIO architecture to the Eureka-based FOLIO architecture in the Sunflower release. The FOLIO chairs recommend coordinating community resources to follow in EBSCO’s steps and transition to Eureka in Sunflower.

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• Continued knowledge transfer to community dev ops teams

• Onboard additional hosts into early adopter program

Appendices

Eureka adopter support

• Existing support

  • End-user early adopter program has begun (private slack channel #eureka-early-adopters)

  • Some documentation exists on the Wiki: Eureka - How to ...

  • Docker-based minimal eureka platform: https://github.com/folio-org/eureka-platform-bootstrap

  • CLI for local deployment: https://github.com/folio-org/eureka-setup

  • Reference environments (links, schedule)

• Planned support

  • Hosting early adopter program will begin in January 2025 with GBV and potentially others

• Gaps in support

  • Additional operational and development support will be needed

Implications of Eureka adoption

• Changes

  • Move from module based platform to application-based platform

  • 0005-application-formalization

  • 0010-eureka

  • Change in maintenance through deprecation of homegrown modules:https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TC/pages/518946885/0010-eureka#Deprecations

• Benefits

  • https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TC/pages/518946885/0010-eureka#Benefits

• Challenges

  • Uncertainty of non-EBSCO hosting providers and self-hosters ability to adopt for Sunflower

  • Incomplete documentation

  • RFC process not completed

What if the community does not transition to Eureka in Sunflower?

If the community were unable to shift to Eureka in Sunflower and must continue supporting the Okapi architecture these high level requirements will need to be met, we believe these needs exceed the community’s capacity:

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