system requirements about zotprime

[mayeulk]

Hi,
It will depend a lot on the number of users and how often they interact with the server.
Being based on docker, the required OS does not matter much as soon as you can use a docker-compose.yml version: '3' (https://github.com/SamuelHassine/zotero-prime/blob/master/docker/docker-compose.yml )
This means you need at least Docker Engine release 1.13.0+
Source: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/

The OS which provide this for the Docker Enterprise edition are listed here:
https://success.docker.com/article/compatibility-matrix
(I could not find a link for CE - Community Edition)

The following are guesstimates:

• For small teams (max 3 or 5?), a single core CPU will probably do
• For larger teams (>5?), I'd suggest dual core and a SSD.
  Mayeul

[mayeulk]

With respect to the linux version required, the linux package "whohas" might help you but the results are a bit cryptic.
The following is easier to use:
https://repology.org/project/docker-compose/versions

[mayeulk]

A few hints with respect to space requirement: (rough measures on Ubuntu 19.04)
git clone: 375 MB
sudo snap install docker : about 500 MB
build and run docker containers: about 2.5 GB
build zotero client for linux: > 500 MB (?)

The whole process took about 4GB of additional space for me (based on df, including some tools such as portainer...). Your mileage will vary; it's hard to measure disk usage when files go into various folders (and taking into account that the package manager of the host OS might download security updates for the OS in background). I suggest you do a test on a test machine, with df -h and du commands before and after installing zotero. You might save space by cross-compiling.

[hoehnp]

Sorry for the late response. @mayeulk. Thanks a lot for the suggestions, it is somehow inline with what I expected that small teams have pretty moderate requirements.