Welcome to Acra guides #

This section contains a couple of guides you might find useful.

General guidelines #

• Trying Acra.

  Describes a lot of different ways to get completely working Acra environment from scratch – including docker composes and example apps.

• Integrating AcraServer into infrastructure.

  A set of steps for deploying and configuring AcraServer in your infrastructure.

• Integrating AcraTranslator into infrastructure.

  A set of steps for deploying and configuring AcraTranslator in your infrastructure.

• Using Acra 1-Click App on Digital Ocean.

  Quick & easy way to deploy & configure Acra on Digital Ocean using our pre-configured environment.

Advanced guidelines with client-side encryption #

• Integrating AcraConnector and AcraWriter for client-side encryption.

  Describes the process of setting up and configuring AcraConnector and AcraWriter to encrypt data on client-side application before sending to the database. This is a general guide, the language and framework of client application doesn’t matter.

• Integrating Acra to protect Django app.

  Describes process of tuning up the Django application for local data encryption before sending the data to the AcraServer and the database. Uses acrawriter Python package for this purpose.

• Integrating Acra to protect Ruby on Rails app.

  Describes process of tuning up the Ruby on Rails application for local data encryption before sending data to the AcraServer and the database. Uses acrawriter Ruby gem for this purpose.