Backend for Koieneres

Setup

Create virtualenv and use it

virtualenv -p python3 env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the application locally

Create dotenv file

Create a file called .env and add the required secrets:

DB_HOST=[CONNECTION URL]
DB_PORT=[PORT]
DB_NAME=[DB NAME]
DB_USER=[DB USERNAME]
DB_PASSWORD=[DB PASSWORD]
SECRET=[DJANGO SECRET KEY]
EMAIL_HOST_USER=[EMAIL USER]
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=[EMAIL PASSWORD]
EMAIL_HOST=[SMTP HOST]
EMAIL_PORT=[SMTP PORT]
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
SENTRY_DSN=[SENTRY_DSN]

Migrate the database

python manage.py migrate

Start the application

python manage.py runserver

CI/CD

Changes to the master-branch are automatically deployed to production.

Sentry

Koieneres uses Sentry to log errors that occur in production.

Server Setup

The application runs on DigitalOcean using docker-compose. Docker-compose manages nginx and certificates. The only software required on the server is docker and docker-compose(snap install docker). To refresh certificates add the following line to the crontab file:

0 12 * * * /root/koieneres-backend/ssl_renew.sh >> /var/log/cron.log 2>&1

The setup is inspired by this guide.