Authoring Platform releases are shared with customers through custom download URLs. The downloaded server artifact is a Linux (tar.gz) archive that contains:
an initial folder structure
the configuration files for all services
a docker-compose.yml file that brings together the entire technology stack to run and manage the service
the credentials required to pull our proprietary docker images
As a best practice, it is advised to extract the content of the archive under /opt. So the deployment folder will be /opt/snow-owl. The docker-compose setup will rely on this path, however, if required it can be changed by editing the ./snow-owl/docker/.env file later on (see DEPLOYMENT_FOLDER environment variable).
When decompressing the archive it is important to use the --same-owner and --preserve-permissions options so the docker containers can access the files and folders appropriately.
The next page will describe the content of the release package in more detail.