Content release process
This guide covers the approval and publishing process of content within NHS England's Terminology Server.
Content development and review is covered in the Authoring FHIR terminology resources guide.
Draft content
This guidance is in public beta
Scaled instances
The Terminology Server can operate in a cluster mode, with multiple instances of terminology servers or (containers) serving a single endpoint.
This is achieved using a load balancer in front of the Terminology Server instances to route these requests. For details on this approach, refer to Horizontally scaled read-only endpoint in Appendix A and configuration of the Terminology Server for horizontal scalability in Appendix B at the end of this document.
The section horizontally scaled read-only endpoint discusses a number of choices and ramifications relevant to release process which should be read prior to reading the procedures in this section if a scaled read-only instance is being used.
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Zero down time deployments
The procedures we have described in this guidance are written assuming there will be zero down time during deployment. Further information about zero down time deployments are given in Appendix C.
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Last edited: 24 March 2023 8:50 am