Add Standalone Production config

[buti1021]

Following the excellent work by Anthony I split the nginx into a proper config production which doesnt use the vite development server.

I still have a few open questions/remarks I want to discuss:

1. Env File, imo we should put the .env into version control, just an example of it. My prefered solution would be to create a file called .env-example and .gitignore the .env file. done, created example.env
2. The development version as provided right now is not really working, as the vite can't access the wss for HMR. I would ask the question if we should really use nginx for the dev setup. Happy for your input here. done, removed nginx for dev setup
3. Healthchecks: @bendhouseart Your changes to the healthchecks in the compose file, didn't work for me. What was the point behind your changes? done
4. Startup scripts (dev.sh and prod.sh) I see the benefit of those files (git submodules & key generation) but also would try to look for a streamlining of the storage of environment variables (script vs. .env) and the duplication of code between the dev and prod file. + I don't completly understand why the npm dependencies are installed in that script and not in the Dockerfiles of the corresponding containers. Option might be to merge dev and prod into a start.sh with more flags. done launch.sh is the entrypoint for now, configuration can be done via .env file
5. Nginx config file, I think this a good starting point, not sure tho how far we can go with this as setups are quiet different (e.g. we have dont have our cert key encrypted and as a result don't have a ssl_password_file. Thus the nginx fails. Maybe remove the config from the code repo and put it into the documentation as an example instead? done, sticking to versioning the nginx config for now :)
6. The api still runs in dev mode more or less. Didn't completly get what the start.sh is used for here (maybe nowhere at all?). Might have time to tackle that in the next few days. this is still undone, but for now out of the scope of this PR.

Happy for your input.

Best,

Tim

[bendhouseart]

Env File, imo we should put the .env into version control, just an example of it. My prefered solution would be to create a file called .env-example and .gitignore the .env file.

Yes, that makes sense, but I prefer example.env ;). I think it's worth adding an if [ ! -f .env ]; then cp example.env .env fi somewhere to handle things (adding this to my branch right now).

The development version as provided right now is not really working, as the vite can't access the wss for HMR. I would ask the question if we should really use nginx for the dev setup. Happy for your input here.

I'd like to commit to nginx always being run b/c that makes the development and production environments as similar as possible (barring how brainlife.io deploys things). That is to say I think it's simpler to have 2 nginx configuration files and 1 env file then to have multiple docker compose files, but that solution while being simpler to me may not be the best path forward.

Healthchecks: @bendhouseart Your changes to the healthchecks in the compose file, didn't work for me. What was the point behind your changes?

It was required as the health checks were failing when reaching out to localhost after we got nginx up and behaving. Since we were all in on nginx it seemed like a good idea to just go with it in the compose too.

Startup scripts (dev.sh and prod.sh) I see the benefit of those files (git submodules & key generation) but also would try to look for a streamlining of the storage of environment variables (script vs. .env) and the duplication of code between the dev and prod file. + I don't completly understand why the npm dependencies are installed in that script and not in the Dockerfiles of the corresponding containers. Option might be to merge dev and prod into a start.sh with more flags.

Yeah, I had some similar remarks about the run/build process, but I think it's helpful to keep in mind that this is not how ezbids is deployed on brainlife.io. Technically speaking, everything we've been doing has been "non-production" compared to how this project was originally scoped/intended to work.

I agree and will be working today to streamline the launch/build process to better leverage:

• environment variables via .env and otherwise
• making dev.sh a bit more explicit by renaming it launch.sh
• adding more options to dev.sh/launch.sh for production, rebuilding/installing npm after mounting etc.

Nginx config file, I think this a good starting point, not sure tho how far we can go with this as setups are quiet different (e.g. we have dont have our cert key encrypted and as a result don't have a ssl_password_file. Thus the nginx fails. Maybe remove the config from the code repo and put it into the documentation as an example instead?

When I requested my ssl certs I encrypted the keys, I'm not sure of a clever way around this within the nginx config. Before we think too much on this, could you try running the http version (point to nginx/development_nginx.conf) instead? My thinking is to use the http nginx enabled version for local development and the https nginx version for production going forward.

The api still runs in dev mode more or less. Didn't completly get what the start.sh is used for here (maybe nowhere at all?). Might have time to tackle that in the next few days.

No idea either, but I think consolidation is the word of the week for my branch.

[bendhouseart]

So when I switch over to using the build option it seems to break my application and make it unusable. Do the options build and dev that get used in this docker file correspond to this ->

ezbids/ui/package.json

Lines 4 to 8 in 8ddb0a0

	"scripts": {
	"dev": "vite --host",
	"build": "vite build --base=/ezbids/",
	"serve": "vite preview"
	},

Really not sure what exactly is all going on here, but it feels like we're pretty close...

[bendhouseart]

What further confuses me is what effect this vite config has, see ->

ezbids/ui/vite.config.ts

Lines 8 to 20 in 8ddb0a0

	export default defineConfig({
	base: '/ezbids/',
	plugins: [
	vue(),
	Components({
	resolvers: [ElementPlusResolver()],
	}),
	ViteYaml(),
	],
	build: {
	sourcemap: true,
	},
	});

Is this at all related to the page refreshing?

[buti1021]

Hey everyone, I've been working with @bendhouseart to improve the setup and deployment on production especially for a setup where client and handler run on different machines. I the context of that we:

1. Renamed dev.sh to launch.sh and moved all the configuration done via command line arguments to an .env file.
2. Created a docker-compose with nginx for production to allow easy setup with a default configuration.

We tested both setup on our local infrastructure. Please let me know if anything else is missing ot get this merged. (Not sure why the dev.sh file is marked as a conflict, this PR should remove the dev.sh file)

Best

[bendhouseart]

Yeah, I went ahead an closed the original PR as they've converged now with this. Currently able to launch this in either "production" or "dev" mode and confident enough to say lgtm.