Dockerizing Agency API

[jaaneh]

This PR introduces Docker and docker-compose to the Agency API, streamlining the development and deployment processes.

Here's what you need to do to get going:

• Add POSTGRES_USER, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, and POSTGRES_DB to your .env file. Make sure DATABASE_URL matches the Postgres service name in docker-compose.
  • The updated .env.example file uses db:5432 for the DATABASE_URL, which is correct with the current setup.
• If you don't have it yet, install Docker Compose. Guide
  • Recommended to install Docker Desktop. This will include Docker Compose by default.
  • Mac users, try OrbStack if Docker Desktop feels heavy or uses too much battery.
• Open your terminal, navigate to the project folder, and run docker-compose up -d. This gets both the API and Postgres running in Docker.

To stop the docker containers when you're done, just run docker-compose down

Feel free to reach out, or open a issue/PR and tag me, if you encounter any issues or have suggestions for improvements to the setup :-)

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[jaaneh]

Once this is in, I'll also move the deployment over from using node directly to building from the Dockerfile file. It may result in a couple minutes downtime while it's being moved over