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Setup the Production Server

The following describes how to run the server in production using Docker Compose.

Requirements

  • Git 1.8+
  • Docker 17.09+ (since we use --chown flag in the COPY directive)
  • Docker Compose

Gather Container Environment Variables

There are four configurations that must be set when running the container.

  • SECRET_KEY is used to provide cryptographic signing, refer to src/pycontw2016/settings/local.sample.env on how to generate secret key
  • MEDIA_ROOT specifies where media files (user-uploaded assets) are stored in the host. This will be mounted into the container.
  • DATABASE_URL specifies how to connect to the database (in the URL form e.g. postgres://username:password@host_or_ip:5432/database_name)
  • EMAIL_URL specifies how to connect to the mail server (e.g. smtp+tls://username:password@host_or_ip:25)
  • (optional) GTM_TRACK_ID
  • (optional) SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL

Write them in a .env file at the same directory that contains docker-compose.yml.

Deploying Associated Services

To deploy the website, we also need the following two service (at least):

Firstly, fetch the docker-compose.yaml files from the above links of the Nginx and PostgreSQL service respectively, and then deploy the PostgresSQL service by

# cd pycontw-postgresql
docker-compose up --build -d

and then deploy the Nginx service by

# cd pycontw-nginx
docker-compose up --build -d

If your docker processes are up correctly by checking docker container ls, you are ready to deploy the website like

docker-compose stop ; docker-compose rm -f ; docker-compose pull ; docker-compose up --build -d

You may skip the part of docker-compose stop, docker-compose rm -f, and docker-compose pull if you are build from scratch so there is no pre-existing pycontw website containers.

Run the Production Server

Run the production server container:

docker-compose start