weBlog - Student Project

Local Deployment

Use the Main branch to set up and test the app locally. The web service is a flask app. The db service is a postgresql databse. In this version, both services run on the same host.

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Setting up the Project from the github repo

Before you start:

Ensure docker & docker-compose is intalled in the server Docker on Ubuntu installation

 

1. Clone the repo into the weblog direcotory

git clone git@github.com:myportfolio-tech/wcBlog.git weblog

2. Navigate the project folder

cd weblog

3. The docker-compose file pulls images from a public repo. You don't need to build the image with docker-compose

4. Bownload the images and bring up the containers with ```console docker-compose up ``` For testing, avoid the -d parameter to troubleshoot flask requests on the command line.

Test the app locally

Check the app is running locally.   You should be able to:

1. Register
2. Sign in
3. Create a post
4. Edit a post
5. Reset password

Volumes

The docker-compose file sets up a persistant volume.

    volumes:
      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data/ 

Stop the conatiners and restart them. Test that users and posts are still available.