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NCAR / ncharts

EOL data visualization application

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Open erikj opened 7 years ago

erikj commented 7 years ago

Pull request for review and discussion:

dockerizes ncharts by
- adding configuration to utilize official Python image and support required services via Docker Compose
- moving hard-coded production paths to environment variables, namespaced w/ NCHARTS_ prefix
switch from Apache + mod_wsgi to Nginx + gunicorn, for lighter and easier to debug environment
config: docker/
documentation: docs/DOCKER.md, docker/README.md
demo: http://datavis-dev.eol.ucar.edu:8000/

Resolves #15

erikj commented 7 years ago

This isn't the most atomic pull request, but some of the big advantages that it provides:

Moves the Python execution environment out of package management, so we don't have to build and maintain our own Python 3 packages. Staying up to date on security fixes will be much easier.
Decouples the web server and the execution environment dependencies by removing mod_wsgi.
Makes spinning up a new environment much easier, faster, consistent and reliable.