WebAppTemplate

Author: Cameron Zuziak
Date: 1/31/2022

Description:

Dockerized flask app served by gunicorn and nginx, for Ubuntu 20.04. This repo has 2 docker containers, one is a flask app served with gunicorn, the other is an nginx proxy. The flask container will also install mysqlclient. If you do not wish to use MySQL, you can edit the flaskapp/Dockerfile to suit your needs.

Instructions:

Instructions below assume you have set up an Ubuntu 20.04 instance

1. Update your instance:

   sudo apt-get update

2. Install docker compose:

   sudo apt-get install docker-compose

3. Clone this repopsitory:

   git clone https://github.com/cameronzuziak/WebAppTemplate.git

4. CD into the cloned directory and open the docker-compose.yml file in either vim or nano:

   cd WebAppTemplate/ nano docker-compose.yml

5. Change the enviroment variable SERVER_NAME from 0.0.0.0 to the public IPv4 of your instance. then save and exit.

6. Change back to the projects main directory:

   cd ../

7. Build your containers and run them, a few ways to do this.

   sudo docker-compose build
   sudo docker-compose up

• or combine the 2 commands with the build arg:

  sudo docker-compose up --build

• or if you want to build and run in the background:

  sudo docker-compose up --build -d