Configurator

REST API for generalized configuration

This python flask app provides REST API endpoints for centralized configuration. Configuration data is stored as JSON in a Mongo database, and backed up in flat files.

This system uses MongoDB, gunicorn and nginx, and depends on docker and docker-compose to run.

To run on production:

sh restart_prod.sh

Installation

1. Update files for the MongoDB read/write user

   cp mongo-init_template.js mongo-init.js
   cp api/config_template.cfg api/config.cfg
   

2. In mongo-init.js, replace the asterisks with the desired password.
3. In api/config.cfg, on the MONGO_URI line: a. Replace the asterisks with the desired password. b. Replace "hostname" with the correct hostname.
4. Update docker-compose-prod.yml or docker-compose-dev.yml as appropriate to reflect the desired password for the root user in the MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD line.
5. Update nginx.conf or nginx-dev.conf as appropriate to reflect the correct hostname.
6. Run the application using restart_prod.sh or restart_dev.sh as appropriate.
7. The API is now available at http://your-hostname/. Opening this url in your browser will bring up the API documentation.

Rob Svirskas (svirskasr@janelia.hhmi.org)

Scientific Computing