[Docs] Self-hosting Metadata Services

[theodore-s-beers]

Description

Our team is interested in self-hosting DataFed metadata services—having hosted several DataFed repositories for some time, but always relying on ORNL-provided metadata services.

The documentation on the compose dev environment is not quite at a point where we feel able to follow it for a metadata services deployment. In particular, it isn't clear what the prerequisites are, or how it might look to have both repository and metadata services running on one server—assuming that's even possible. What does the target setup look like?

Acceptance Criteria

We would like to see the documentation fleshed out such that a team like ours could follow it to complete a metadata services deployment without further assistance.

We are happy to help revise and expand the docs, once we know what the relevant details are. Perhaps if we had a meeting with one or more members of the DataFed team to help us go through the deployment process, we could take notes and transfer that into clearer documentation to help others.