Docker Base App

A ready to go docker app with:

• MySQL
• Redis for caching
• Nginx
• uwsgi
• Python
• Flask

The basic Flask app has:

• Sample user registration and login
• Saving to MySQL
• Basic templates
• Flask Debug Toolbar
• Well structured modular flask app

Some other features include:

• Development, Testing and Production modes
• Quick auto-reloading of code while working in development mode

Instructions for running

• Download docker toolbox from https://www.docker.com/toolbox
• Setup a virtualbox machine called dev
• dm create -d virtualbox --engine-opt dns=8.8.8.8 dev
• The dns=8.8.8.8 helped me run pip install commands inside the container from captive WiFi portals
• Clone the git repository
• Change the mysql passwords in common/docker-compose.yml
• Run the following commands
• cd development
• docker-compose up -d
• docker exec -it web-dev /bin/bash
• cd /var/www/events
• sh setup_app.sh
• dm inspect -f '{{ .Driver.IPAddress }}' dev

At this point you should be able to open a web browser and point to the ip (port 8080) received from the last command and see the site. For example if the ip was 192.168.99.101 then point to http://192.168.99.101:8080

Toubleshooting

• Look at web server logs
• docker exec -t web-dev tail -f -n 100 /var/log/uwsgi/events/events.log
• Look at web server access logs
• docker exec -t web-dev tail -f -n 100 /var/log/nginx/access.log
• Look at mysql server logs
• ````docker logs -f mysql-dev```