Wire™

This repository is part of the source code of Wire. You can find more information at wire.com or by contacting opensource@wire.com.

You can find the published source code at github.com/wireapp/wire.

For licensing information, see the attached LICENSE file and the list of third-party licenses at wire.com/legal/licenses/.

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Wire server

This repository contains the source code for the Wire server. It contains all libraries and services necessary to run Wire.

Documentation on how to self host your own Wire-Server is not yet available but is planned. Federation is on our long term roadmap.

See more in "Open sourcing Wire server code".

Content of the repository

This repository contains the following source code:

• services
  • nginz: Public API Reverse Proxy (Nginx with custom libzauth module)
  • galley: Conversations and Teams
  • brig: Accounts
  • gundeck: Push Notification Hub
  • cannon: WebSocket Push Notifications
  • cargohold: Asset (image, file, ...) Storage
  • proxy: 3rd Party API Integration
• tools
  • api-simulations: Run automated smoke and load tests
  • makedeb: Create Debian packages
  • bonanza: Transform and forward log data
• libs: Shared libraries

It also contains

• build: Build scripts and Dockerfiles for some platforms
• deploy: (Work-in-progress) - how to run wire-server in an ephemeral, in-memory demo mode
• doc: Documentation

Architecture Overview

The following diagram gives a high-level outline of the (deployment) architecture of the components that make up a Wire Server as well as the main internal and external dependencies between components.

Communication between internal components is currently not guarded by dedicated authentication or encryption and is assumed to be confined to a private network.

Development setup

How to build wire-server binaries

There are two options:

1. Compile sources natively.

This requires a range of dependencies that depend on your platform/OS, such as:

• Haskell & Rust compiler and package managers
• Some package dependencies (libsodium, openssl, protobuf, icu, geoip, snappy, cryptobox-c, ...) that depend on your platform/OS

See doc/Dependencies.md for details.

Once all dependencies are set up, the following should succeed:

# build all haskell services
make
# build one haskell service, e.g. brig:
cd services/brig && make
# build nginz
cd services/nginz && make

2. Use docker

If you don't wish to build all docker images from scratch (e.g. the alpine-builder takes a very long time), ready-built images can be downloaded from here.

If you wish to build your own docker images, you need docker version >= 17.05 and make. Then,

make docker-services

will, eventually, have built a range of docker images. See the Makefiles and Dockerfiles, as well as build/alpine/README.md for details.

How to run integration tests

Integration tests require all of the haskell services (brig,galley,cannon,gundeck,proxy,cargohold) to be correctly configured and running, before being able to execute e.g. the brig-integration binary. This requires most of the deployment dependencies as seen in the architecture diagram to also be available:

• Required internal dependencies:
  • cassandra (with the correct schema)
  • elasticsearch (with the correct schema)
  • redis
• Required external dependencies are the following configured AWS services (or "fake" replacements providing the same API):
  • SES
  • SQS
  • SNS
  • S3
  • Cloudfront
  • DynamoDB

Setting up these real, but in-memory internal and "fake" external dependencies is done easiest using docker-compose. Run the following in a separate terminal (it will block that terminal, C-c to shut all these docker images down again):

cd deploy/docker-ephemeral && docker-compose up

Then, to run all integration tests:

make integration

Or, alternatively, make on the top-level directory (to produce all the service's binaries) followed by e.g cd services/brig && make integration to run one service's integration tests only.

How to run wire-server

Documentation, configuration, and code for this is not ready yet (please do not open an issue to ask about this!). More information on how to run wire-server might be available here at some point in the future.

As a brief overview, it requires setting up

• database clusters (cassandra, redis, elasticsearch)
• external dependencies
  • Amazon account with access to
    • SES
    • SQS
    • SNS
    • S3
    • Cloudfront
    • DynamoDB
  • Nexmo/Twilio accounts (if you want to send out SMSes)
  • Giphy/Google/Spotify/Soundcloud API keys (if you want to support previews by proxying these services)
  • TURN servers (if you want to support Voice/Video calls)
• production-ready configuration for all services
• additional infrastructure configuration (DNS, SSL certificates, metrics, logging, etc)

Roadmap

• Build and deployment options