Introduction#
Enterprise Solid Server (ESS) is a Solid Pod Server. That is, ESS provides/hosts Solid Pods (where Pods are data storage locations) in accordance with the Solid specification.
ESS Architecture#
ESS’ microservices architecture:
Enables support for highly available deployment configurations.
Enables simple scaling.
Pod Management#
Pods are where users store their data. When ESS provisions a new Pod,
it creates the Pod with the URL https://<ESS domain>/<username>/.
As part of the process, ESS also creates a WebID,
https://<ESS domain>/<username>/profile/card#me, for the user.
When creating a Pod, ESS creates the following default structure under the Pod’s root (where the Pod is represented as a directory structure):
<Pod's root> = https://<ESS domain>/<username>/
│
├── 📁 policies/
│
├── 📁 profile/
│ └──📄 card
├── 📁 inbox/
│
├── 📁 private/
│
├── 📁 public/
│
└── 📁 settings/
└── 📄publicTypeIndex.ttl
└── 📄privateTypeIndex.ttl
└── 📄prefs.ttl
ESS fully supports the W3C Linked Data Platform (LDP) specification. As such, navigating, creating, deleting and editing resources within a Pod is directly supported via the standard interfaces. For more information, see LDP Service.
Notifications#
New in version 1.1.
ESS provides a secure implementation of a WebSockets notification protocol. ESS WebSocket service sends notifications upon changes to Resources. Applications can subscribe to a particular Resource, including a Container, and receive notifications upon changes to the subscribed Resource(s).
For more information, see WebSocket Notification Service.
Advanced Security#
ESS’ security features include:
Solid OpenID Connect (OIDC) Service to support login with any existing OIDC-compliant identity provider.
Support for Access Control Policies (ACP).
For more information, see Security.
Administrative Operations#
You can set up a centralized logging system to a backend logging system.
You can backup and restore at the individual Pod level or at the database level.
For more information, see Administration.
Discovery#
New in version 1.1.3.
To help the discovery of various feature endpoints (such as the
GraphQL endpoint, the WebSocket
notification endpoint), ESS provides the
.well-known/solid resource.
For more information, see Discovery.
Support#
Inrupt offers up to 24/7 support for operators and developers with a commercial license for ESS.
Additional Information on Solid#
The Solid specification defines various Solid server/Pod behaviors, such as those related to: