MyCloudInstance

A cloud computing platform for instance hosting, cloud shell's and coding resources.

Now a Laravel project.

Usage

Pre-Requisites

• PHP version 8 (might work on version 7, but has not been tested).
• Composer php dependency manager.
• A MySQL DB service running with a copy of the project .sql. Can be on a different system.
• A system able to run docker for instance dispatching (Not yet needed).
• If on Windows, bash is needed to execute the .sh file for js_dependency_setup. Or just manually execute the commands.

Run the project

Start cloning the repository and installing dependencies

 git clone https://github.com/RoachLok/MyCloudInstance
 cd MyCloudInstance
 composer install
 bash js_dependency_setup.sh

Copy .env.example file and name it .env.

 cp .env.example .env

Now edit it to include your:

• App Settings

  APP_NAME=MyCloudInstace
  APP_ENV=local
  APP_KEY=
  APP_DEBUG=true
  APP_URL=http://localhost:8000

• Database Settings

  DB_CONNECTION=mysql
  DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
  DB_PORT=3306
  DB_DATABASE=mci
  DB_USERNAME=root
  DB_PASSWORD=

• Second Database Settings

   DB_CONNECTION_2=sqlite
   DB_DATABASE_2= <path_to_project> + database/external/municipalities.db
   DB_FOREIGN_KEYS=false

• and Email settings

  MAIL_MAILER=smtp
  MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
  MAIL_PORT=465
  [email protected]
  MAIL_PASSWORD=email_password
  MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl
  [email protected]
  MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Last, with your database running:

php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate
php artisan storage:link
php artisan serve

Main Development checkpoints

Done:

• Signup and login platform, user verification and recovery.
• DB for user related data storing.

In progress:

• User-friendly dashboard from where to manage instances, storage, profile, etc..
• C++ GNU, java and more programming environments.
• Easy to use and attractive interface.
• User location heatmap to track low population density areas (INE).

To Do:

• Virtual instances.
• Cloud shell.
• Payment gateways and payment tracking.
• User manuals.
• Ticket support system.
• Courses platform.
• Review system with sentiment analysis.
• Demand analysis (Youtube / StackOverflow).
• Service scoring.