A framework that can be used as a base to build service on Rehive

Make sure you have the following installed

• Docker
• Travis CLI
• Heroku CLI

Create a vitual environment and activate it

If you are new to this, virtualenv with virtualenvwrapper is a straight forward and relatelive simple was to use virtual environments. The The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! has a nice tutorial for setting up virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper

Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the postgres container in the background

docker-compose up -d postgres

Run docker ps to make sure your container is running.

Migrate all the data to the database

./manage.py migrate

Setup all the static files

./manage.py collectstatic

Run the webserver to see if all is working

./manage.py runserver

Run the postgres container in the background (if not already running)

docker-compose up -d postgres

Run the webserver

./manage.py runserver

Deployements are automated using Travis CI and Heroku. Pushes to the master branch will trigger a build via Travis. Once the build passes, Travis will deploy the branch to Heroku.

• Make sure your project is on github
  • Add the following file, if not already on github. It is excluded in the .gitignore file by default

  git add -f config/static/api/
  

• Sign up on (travis.org)[https://travis-ci.org/] if you repo is open source or (travis.com)[https://travis-ci.com/] for private repos
• Sync your account
• Turn on the switch for your repository
• Sign up on (Heroku)[https://signup.heroku.com/]
• Login and authenticate your heroku-cli so that you can use the heroku-cli to create our production app.

heroku login

• Run the following command locally to initialize your project

heroku create service-gitos --remote prod --region eu && \
heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev --app service-gitos && \
heroku config:set \
    DJANGO_SECRET=`openssl rand -base64 32` \
    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE="config.settings" \
    --app service-gitos

• Encrypt your Heroky credentials and allow Travis to view them for deployments

travis encrypt HEROKU_AUTH_TOKEN="$(heroku auth:token)" --add

• Commit and push the changes to master to trigger the first build