Team 5 - Infrastructure and DevOps Fall 2023

The project aims to revolutionize information retrieval from extensive academic repositories like theses and dissertations by developing an advanced system. Unlike conventional search engines, it focuses on handling complex academic documents. Six dedicated teams oversee different facets: Knowledge Graph, Search and Indexing, Object Detection and Topic Analysis, Language Models, Integration, and User Interaction. The infrastructure and DevOps team is responsible for integration, orchestrates collaborative efforts, manages database access, and ensures seamless communication among components via APIs. The team oversees the container utilization in the CI/CD pipeline, maintains the container cluster, and tailors APIs for specific team needs. Expressing gratitude for previous contributions, the team has made notable progress in migrating to Endeavour, establishing a robust CI/CD pipeline, updating the database schema, tackling Kafka challenges, and deploying authentication services while creating accessible filesystem and database APIs for other teams.