Deploying Account Management User Interface

note

Account Management API is now deprecated and we recommend that you use Account Management functionality built into Elastic Path Commerce 8.2 and later.

Pre-requisites

• Ensure that all requirements described in the Requirements section are met.
• Ensure that you have access to the account-management-2.4.x.zip file in the Elastic Path public Nexus repository.
• Ensure that the public URL of the Account Management UI is listed as a valid redirect URI in the identity provider. For more information, see the redirect_uri parameter in OpenID Connect 1.0 -- Section 3.1.2.1.

Procedure

1. Extract the files in the account-management-2.4.x.zip file.

   • Ensure that all contents including the account-management-app folder are extracted. This folder contains the code to build the Docker image.

2. On your computer, build the Docker image by using account-management-app/docker/Dockerfile)

   • Ensure that you build the Docker image by running the following command in the parent directory:

   cd account-management-2.4.x/account-management-app/
   docker build -f ./Dockerfile
   

3. Push the Docker image to Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry).

4. Deploy the Docker image in Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Services) with appropriate parameters. For more information, see the Docker Image Environment Variables section.

5. Create and configure a new Amazon ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) with the Amazon ECS service and appropriate SSL certificates.

Docker image environment variables

Parameter	Value
INSTANCE_URL	The Account Management user interface URL.
COMMERCE_MANAGER_URL	The URL for the Commerce Manager instance.
ADMIN_API_URL	The URL for the Account Management API Service. For example, https://<ACCOUNT-MANAGEMENT-API>/admin.

Localization

You can add up to ten additional locales to your deployment. To add a new locale, do the following:

1. Copy the existing translation file: account-management-2.4.x/account-management-app/src/locales/en-US.json
2. Translate the strings for the keys in your new JSON file.
3. Host the file on the web with CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) headers enabled.
4. Add the following environment variables to your deployment:
   • ADDED_LOCALE_<INDEX>_NAME: The locale identifier of the new locale, for example, fr-FR.
   • ADDED_LOCALE_<INDEX>_TITLE: The name of the new locale to be shown in the language dropdown, for example, Française.
   • ADDED_LOCALE_<INDEX>_JSON_PATH: The URL path to the hosted JSON file with translations, for example, https://my.website.com/locales/fr-FR.json.

You can set the <INDEX> parameter from 0 through 9 for a total of 10 additional locales.

View and test the changes with the docker compose deploy by adding the environment variables to the following env file:

account-management-2.4.x/local-deployment/am.env

Validating User Interface Deployment

Use this procedure to verify that the Elastic Path Account Management service deployment is complete and successful in AWS (Amazon Web Services).

1. Go to the Account Management user interface URL.

   The system redirects you to the identity provider configured on the Account Management API Service.

2. Log in to the identity provider with the seller administrator credentials.

   The system redirects you to the Account Management user interface to continue with the login.