Hosting assets

The RVM has several responsibilities, one of which is to manage the downloading of OpenFin binaries from the OpenFin default repository cdn.openfin.co. While OpenFin’s cloud leverages the highest security standards, some companies do not allow downloading of binaries from outside of their network, therefore, the RVM can be configured through desktop owner or local registry settings to use an internal asset repository specified by the company.

Configure with Desktop Owner Settings.

{
    "desktopSettings": {
        "assetsUrl": "http://assetserver.com"
    }
}

Configure with Group Policy and Registry Settings

Purpose: Globally set an assetsUrl

Data Type: String (REG_SZ)

Expected Value: A URL to the server that is hosting the assets.

Default Value: https://cdn.openfin.co

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenFin\RVM\Settings\assetsUrl

Value: http://YourAssetServer

Result: RVM and Runtime assets will be retrieved from your specified asset server as opposed to the OpenFin asset repository.

RVM Assets Server Setup

The RVM expects the server located at assetsUrl to have a similar file structure to the following:

Runtime Structure**

• x32 Bit rootFolder/runtime/version
• x64 Bit rootFolder/runtime/x64/version

RVM Structure**

• rootFolder/rvm/latestVersion

Runtime

• Every file with a version in the name represents an extensionless zip of a runtime version
• The other files are extensionless text files that contain a mapping to a version. For example, the content of alpha can be: 15.80.49.30
• When you access a release channel, the RVM resolves the version and then tries to download the actual file
• 15.80.49 + will try to download x64 Bit versions by default

RVM

• latest is an extensionless zip file that contains the latest RVM version
• latestVersion is an extensionless text file that lists the version number
• If the latest version is greater than the current one, the RVM performs an auto-update

You can obtain all the files from our versions page.

Example

See our GitHub code example for more information on self hosting.

Diagram of OpenFin deployment architecture:

For more information or support related to OpenFin deployment or asset hosting please contact [email protected].