List of containers

Cytomine Community Edition 2023.1 is a collection of services that are isolated in Docker containers listed here :

Name	Required	Goal
Nginx	Yes	Main HTTP(S) proxy dispatching incoming requests.
Core	Yes	Main Cytomine server. Provide the REST API.
Postgres	Yes	Main database. Store most of data.
MongoDB	Yes	Secondary database. Store activity data.
PIMS	Yes	Main image server.
PIMS-cache	Yes	Fast cache for images.
Bioformat	No	Support for additional image formats.
RabbitMQ	No	Communication between Core and other services.
Web UI	No	Web graphical user interface. Required to use a GUI.

Global architecture