SnyPy Docker Setup

Setup Application

• Create docker-compose.override.yml based on docker-compose.override.example.yml on adapt configuration
• Pull container images: docker compose pull
• Start containers: docker compose up

Working with fixtures

Fixtures can be used in order to speed up the setup of the application.

Creat a new fixture

docker compose run --rm api python manage.py dumpdata --indent 4 --output /fixtures/setup.json --natural-foreign --natural-primary auth users shares snippets teams

Load existing fixture

The fixtures are located inside data/fixtures which is can be maped in the docker-compose.override.yml, ex: ./data/fixtures/:/fixtures/.

docker compose run --rm api python manage.py loaddata /fixtures/setup.json

The current fixture available in the repository contains some dumy data, language configuration and an admin (Usernmae: admin, Password: 12345678!)

Running the REST API locally for development

The following steps are required:

• Create a override file based on the dev confgiuration: cp docker-compose.override.dev.yml docker-compose.override.yml
• Clone the code of the rest API: git clone https://github.com/snypy/snypy-backend.git code/snypy-backend
• Run docker compose: docker compose up

The api container will load the code form the local volume and start the development server which reload on every change in the python files. All Django command can run via the container: docker compose exec api python manage.py makemigrations

Make the containers publicly avaialble

In order to make SnyPy publicly avialable I use nginx and Let's Encrypt.

My setup makes use of a subdomain for each service:

• app.snypy.com - Appliction UI
• api.snypy.com - Rest API

Next step is a base webroot configuration fot the HTTP-01 challenge validation;

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name app.snypy.com api.snypy.com;

    location ~ /.well-known {
        root /var/www/letsencrypt;
        allow all;
    }
}

Afterwards certbot can be used generate the SSL certificates:

certbot certonly -d app.snypy.com --webroot --webroot-path /var/www/letsencrypt
certbot certonly -d api.snypy.com --webroot --webroot-path /var/www/letsencrypt

Once the certificate configuration is done, the subdomains can forward the traffic to the specific container and all traffic can be redirected to https.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name app.snypy.com api.snypy.com;

    location / {
         return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }

    location ~ /.well-known {
        root /var/www/letsencrypt;
        allow all;
    }
}

server {
    listen 443;
    server_name app.snypy.com;
    ssl on;
    ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/app.snypy.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/app.snypy.com/privkey.pem;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }
}
server {
    listen 443;
    server_name api.snypy.com;
    ssl on;
    ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/api.snypy.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/api.snypy.com/privkey.pem;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }
}

Also make sure afterwards that the containters are only avaiable via nginx. This can be done by specifing a local IP in the port mapping in the docker-compose.override.yml:

version: "3"

services:
  api:
    environment:
      ALLOWED_HOSTS: "api.snypy.com"
      DEBUG: "False"
      SECRET_KEY: "SECRET_KEY"
      CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST: "https://app.snypy.com"
      REGISTER_VERIFICATION_URL: "https://app.snypy.com/verify-user/"
      RESET_PASSWORD_VERIFICATION_URL: "http://app.snypy.com/set-password/?token={token}"
      REGISTER_EMAIL_VERIFICATION_URL: "https:/app.snypy.com/verify-email/"
      EMAIL_URL: "smtp+tls://user:pass@provider:587"
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:8000:8000"

  ui:
    environment:
      REST_API_URL: "https://api.snypy.com/api/v1/"
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:8080:80"  

  static:
    profiles:
      - donotstart

Afterwards restart the containers and check the status

user@serverName:/snypy# docker compose ps
        Name                       Command               State            Ports          
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
snypy-docker_api_1      gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:80 ...   Up      127.0.0.1:8000->8000/tcp
snypy-docker_db_1       docker-entrypoint.sh postgres    Up      5432/tcp                
snypy-docker_ui_1       /docker-entrypoint.sh sh e ...   Up      127.0.0.1:8080->80/tcp 

Update env file

• Load environment from file: export $(cat .env | xargs)
• Set new environment: export API_VERSION=1.1.0
• Update environment file: envsubst < .env.template > .env