This repository contains information about the X-Road, its source code, development, installation and documentation.
The source code of X-Road is published under the MIT open source licence. X-Road is free of charge and can be implemented by any organisation.
What is X-Road?
X-Road® is open-source software and ecosystem solution that provides unified and secure data exchange between organisations.
X-Road Data Exchange Layer is a standardised, cohesive, collaborative, interoperable and secure data exchange layer that gives service providers a completely new kind of opportunity of making themselves visible in services directed at citizens, businesses and civil servants. Creating entities that combine many different services and data sources is easy and cost efficient.
- Improves the quality of existing services and products
- Enables new types of service innovations
- Savings in infrastructure, archiving and other costs
- Standardised data security and privacy protection
- Easy implementation, data access via interfaces – after connecting all included services are available
See X-Road product website for more information about X-Road.
X-Road development model and all the related documentation is published and maintained in the X-Road Development GitHub repository.
How to contribute?
Guidelines for the X-Road contributors are available here.
How to build X-Road?
See instructions in src/BUILD.md
Local installation
X-Road central servers, configuration proxies and security servers can be automatically installed with the Ansible scripts found in ansible subdirectory. See instructions in ansible/README.md