Architecture Overview

The DiSSCo data infrastructure is an implementation of Digital Specimen architecture (DSArch) for its core services together with end-user services that connect with these core services. An overview is given in the picture below with core services in green and end-user services in blue:

The DiSSCo infrastructure is hosted on AWS and provisioned through Terraform, an Infrastructure as Code tool. The infrastructure code is stored in its own repository. It is deployed through Kubernetes, and the deployment code is stored in a separate repository.