FLINT.Cloud

The project aims to build a continuous deployment pipeline to offer FLINT as a SaaS over cloud. The project also aims to simplify the process of installation by supporting a single command or step installation process.

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Table of Contents

1. Technology Stack
2. Layered Architecture Setup on Google Cloud
   • Deploying
   • Disabling
   • Flask example REST API Setup
   • Flask-GCBM REST API Setup
3. FAQ and Other Questions
4. Contributors
5. Maintainers Reviewers Ambassadors Coaches

Technology Stack

• Python
• Google Cloud Platform
• Flask
• Terraform
• Sphinx

Production Setup - Layered Architecture Setup on Google Cloud

Deploying

1. Create a service account with project owner permissions in your project. This is used by Terraform to provision all the necessary resources.
2. Copy main.tf from the layered directory of this repository to your Cloud Console machine.
3. In main.tf, change the project variable to your project ID. Change any other variables if necessary.
4. Download the key for the service account created in step 1 (in JSON format) to your project's Cloud Console machine. Rename it as service_account.json.
5. Run terraform apply. After this command finishes, it should output the URL to FLINT Cloud (ingress).

Disabling

1. In the same directory as where main.tf is present, run terraform destroy. In case this fails, simply run it again.

Local Setup

These steps can be followed to locally setup the API endpoints. This is independent of the above mentioned production setup.

Flask example REST API Setup

In order to run the REST API, navigate to the local/rest_api_flint.example folder. Follow these steps: -

1. docker build -t flint-api .
2. docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 flint-api

Currently the REST API has the following endpoints available for access:-

Endpoint	Functionality
\help\all	Produces a help message with information on all options for moja.CLI.
\help\arg	Produces a help message with information on option arg for moja.CLI.
\version	Outputs the version number of moja.CLI.
\point	Runs point example and outputs point_example.csv as an attachment to be downloaded. Parameters (multipart-form data) file for point_example can be passed to override the default configurations.
\rothc	Runs rothc example and outputs point_rothc_example.csv as an attachment to be downloaded. Parameters (multipart-form data) file for rothc_example can be passed to override the default configurations.

This REST API is built using the flask-restful package and has been containerized using Docker.

Flask GCBM REST API Setup

In order to run the Flask GCBM API, navigate to the local/rest_api_gcbm please follow the following steps: -

1. docker build --build-arg BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE --build-arg NUM_CPU=4 -t gcbm-api .
2. docker run -v path to the unzipped GCBM_Demo_Run.zip folder:/gcbm_files --rm -p 8080:8080 gcbm-api

For instruction 2, unzip the folder GCBM_Demo_Run.zip present at the root of the directory On unzipping, a folder layers is created, make note of the path of this folder We have mounted the layers folder as gcbm_files onto our container.

Example: Assume the path to the unzipped folder is /home/layers, instruction 2 will be :

2. docker run -v /home/layers:/gcbm_files --rm -p 8080:8080 gcbm-api

Currently the REST API has the following endpoints available for access:-

Endpoint	Functionality
\help\all	Produces a help message with information on all options for moja.CLI.
\help\arg	Produces a help message with information on option arg for moja.CLI.
\version	Outputs the version number of moja.CLI.
\gcbm	Runs flint-gcbm and outputs some files in the output directory along with the output db.

Parameters (multipart-form data) file for gcbm_config and input_db for input sqlite db can be passed to override the default configurations.

This REST API is built using the flask-restful package and has been containerized using Docker.

How to Get Involved?

Feel free to join our Slack community and get to know everyone.

If you would like to volunteer as a mentor, or for any other questions, please contact andrew@moja.global. We'd love to have you involved.

Contributing

To contribute to FLINT.Cloud:

Go through our contributing guidelines over here.

FAQ and Other Questions

• You can find FAQs on the Wiki.
• If you have a question about the code, submit user feedback in the relevant repository
• If you have a general question about a project or repository or moja global, join moja global and
  • submit a discussion to the project, repository or moja global team
  • submit a message to the relevant channel on moja global's Slack workspace.
• If you have other questions, please write to info@moja.global

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Maintainers Reviewers Ambassadors Coaches

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License

This project is released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0.