Prerequisites

See the Flowable System Requirements and Supported Software documentation.

Additional specific requirements are listed in the sections

Content Storage

Content items which are uploaded to Flowable need to be stored on a persistent medium. By default, Flowable stores the documents on the file system of the running node at the following location: <USER-HOME>/content (e. g. /Users/myusername/content) The location can be customized by configuring the following application property flowable.content.storage.root-folder=<storage folder for content items>.

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On multi-node environments and dockerized installations, the content storage needs to be configured to a persistent common storage system (for example a pvc volume) to not lose any content items.

Further, Flowable supports the configuration of database-based content storage, AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, and the possibility to implement a custom content storage system. A detailed guide is provided under Content Object Storage customization.