quotes

FastAPI quote app

local set up

set up local pod, container and db. podman pod create -p 8000:8000 -p 5432:5432 --name=quote_pod && podman pod start quote_pod podman build -t quote-app -f Dockerfile --ignorefile .dockerignore podman run -d --pod=quote_pod --name=postgres_db -v dbdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data --env-file src/core/.env docker.io/postgres:latest podman run -d --pod=quote_pod --name=quote-app quote-app

Podman

Set up pod to put all related app containers together, like docker compose. Note mapped ports are only declared at the top level , rather the pod the containers are in.

// moving this pod building to a start up script

oracle vps setup

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=443/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent

create systemd services

Using the user flag, these generated files get stored here podman docs

These commands only work after having everything up and running. Which then need to be removed.

podman generate systemd --files --name quote_pod

copy files

mv -v *.service ~/.config/systemd/user/

enable/disable systemctl --user enable pod-quote_pod.service

enable linger
loginctl enable-linger $USER

and start systemctl --user start pod-quote_pod.service

check running systemctl --user --type=service --state=running

Docker

Docker set up here

running jobs

call scraper via container. Use this in the crontab job.

podman exec quote-app python -m scraper

check db in container

psql -U $POSTGRES_USER $POSTGRES_DB

restore backup

gunzip -c ragingdharmaDbBackup_2025-04-25.sql.tar.gz | podman exec -i postgres_db psql -U root -d postgres

tests

Initital testing is against a local container postgres using pytest and only testing the open api endpoints atm.

TODO: test the jinja templates, test auth and protected routes.