Overview & Installation

the v2 of the floating server is currently in an open beta please submit any bugs or feedback via our support tickets as we are actively working to resolve them to move to an initial public release in a timely manner what is the floating server v2? the floating server is licensespring’s self hosted licensing platform, providing the core features of the cloud platform locally version 2 introduces improved setup, configuration, and management workflows to make deployment, provisioning, and administration easier this document focuses on v2, detailing installation, configuration, and best practices for running the floating server in your environment key highlights & compatibility feature details supported platforms windows and linux supported sdks (initial) c++, net, java (more coming) database support sqlite (dev/test), postgresql (prod) production recommendation postgresql provisioning options certificates or yubikey tokens installation options option 1 native executable (recommended) download the appropriate binary floating server linux amd 2 0 0 beta 1 zip floating server windows amd 2 0 0 beta 1 zip unzip and run directly, no docker required option 2 docker image (coming soon) pull the image from docker hub run the container from the pulled image the configuration file and provisioning steps are identical for both methods the only difference with docker is that you must mount the configuration and provisioning files so the container can access them run floating server v2 with postgresql and docker create a shared network start postgresql change the setting as needed modify floating server config file yaml database type postgres host fs postgres port 5432 user fsuser password fspassword name fsdb sslmode "disable" pull the floating server v2 image run floating server v2 mount the config file and the certs (certificates and private key generated in provisioning) folder from provisioning in this sample, we have assumed the confing file is located in /config and certificates and private key in /certs verify floating server api http //localhost 8080 postgres available at fs postgres 5432 inside the docker network