Requirements

The following must be available on your server:

• Node.js and npm
• docker

Setting config parameters

After cloning this repo, you will need to set the paramters given in conf/config.json. The "server" paramater can be "tst" or "prd" for test or production server respectively. The "app_port" is the port in the host that should map to docker container for the app.

Creating and starting docker container for the APP

From the "app" subdirectory, run the python script given to build and start container:

  python3 create_app_container.py -s {DEP}
  docker ps --all

The last command should list docker all containers and you should see the container you created "running_hivelabapp{DEP}". To start this container, the best way is to create a service file (/usr/lib/systemd/system/docker-hivelab-app-{DEP}.service), and place the following content in it.

  [Unit]
  Description=Glyds APP Container
  Requires=docker.service
  After=docker.service

  [Service]
  Restart=always
  ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker start -a running_hivelab_app_{DEP}
  ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop -t 2 running_hivelab_app_{DEP}

  [Install]
  WantedBy=default.target

This will allow you to start/stop the container with the following commands, and ensure that the container will start on server reboot.

  $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload 
  $ sudo systemctl enable docker-hivelab-app-{DEP}.service
  $ sudo systemctl start docker-hivelab-app-{DEP}.service
  $ sudo systemctl stop docker-hivelab-app-{DEP}.service

Mapping APP and API containers to public domains

To map the APP and API containers to public domains (e.g. www.hivelab.org and api.hivelab.org), add apache VirtualHost directives. This VirtualHost directive can be in a new f ile (e.g. /etc/httpd/conf.d/hivelab.conf).

  <VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName www.hivelab.org
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:{APP_PORT}/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:{APP_PORT}/
  </VirtualHost>

where {APP_PORT} and {API_PORT} are your port for the APP and API ports in conf/config.json file. You need to restart apache after this changes using the following command:

   $ sudo apachectl restart