[Expo-tech] Server things followup

Thu May 9 12:23:46 BST 2019

Glad to see that we have all this continuous integration stuff down pat:
"bring it to the pub on a hard drive" ... :-)

On Thu, 9 May 2019, 12:09 Wookey, <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:

> On 2019-05-09 11:51 +0100, Sam Wenham wrote:
> > The Dockerfile that builds the container I use for dev has
> >
> > apt install mercurial fonts-freefont-ttf locales survex
> >
> > and pip install
> >
> > Django==1.7.11
> > django-registration==2.1.2
> > mysql
> > django-imagekit
> > Image
> > django-tinymce==2.7.0
> > smartencoding
>
> That's the list I didn't have acces to. Sam's is right :-)
>
> > we also need for the prod vm apache 2.4 and mysql
> >
> > > 437:https
> >
> > I assume you meant 443.
>
> I did.
>
> > We use GitLab over SSH and HTTPS and I don't think it uses the git
> > native port.
>
> OK, good.
>
> > Did they give any details of the container we would have to use? My
> > Docker setup uses 2 containers one for the DB and one for the webapp.
> > This is more normal for containers as bundling everything into container
> > is a bad plan.
>
> Any container we make. I was planning to more or less put the expo
> server into a container, but I'm a chroot and VM man, so have never
> really used containers. Why is it better not to put all the services
> in one bucket? Feel free to point me at a reference.
>
> Having read https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud I was planning to use the
> debian standard FAI to make maintainable container images. The more obvious
> option is docker, but AIUI that makes snapshot images that would keep
> needing updates (or become insecure).
> I'll have a go with this stuff over the w/e next week.
>
> You can presumably send me a docker script that should make the right
> thing already? Or even a built image to test?
>
> I'll need some way to get at the expo machine/disk/data early next
> week. Can you (Sam) make a copy of the VM available somewhere I can see, or
> bring it to the pub on a drive?
>
> Wookey
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