simhaonline / lxdcontaineradmin

sad2019-1-team-11

• Chetan Tuli = Vue.js Frontend.
• Gaston Vejar = Node.js Backend; LXD Configuration and Setup; mySQL Database Container Configuration and Setup; nginx w/SSL Load Balancer Container Configuration and Setup; nginx w/SSL Web Server Configuration and Setup.

Local Testing Setup:

• Database setup

  • Create a local mySQL instance.
  • Create database team11cm.
  • Create user 'team11cm' with password 'admin123' and give it full permissions over the created database.
  • Use the scripts in "db-init" to create the tables and populate the initial data in the database.

• Application

  • Check database connection on dummy_database.js
  • Make sure that the url variable in /public/script/main.js is pointing to 'http://localhost:3000' for local testing.
  • Run dummy_app.js. This will run the app only with database (no lxd) for testing porpuses.
  • Run application through browser at 'http://localhost:3000'.

Production Setup:

• Local Linux Machine with LXD

  • Install and configure a local instance of LXD.

• Database Container

  • Create a new container ('sys-database') with an instance of mySQL.
  • Create database team11cm.
  • Create user 'team11cm' with password 'admin123' and give it full permissions over the created database.
  • Use the scripts in "db-init" to create the tables and populate the initial data in the database.
  • Container mySQL configuration example file can be found in server_config/database/mysql.cnf

• Load Balancer Container

  • Create a new container ('sys-loadbalancer') with an instance of nginx.
  • Container loadbalancer nginx configuration sample file can be found in server_config/load-balancer/nginx.conf.

• Web Server Containers/Application

  • Create web servers containers ('sys-webserverXX') with an instance of nginx.
  • Container webserver nginx configuration sample file can be found in server_config/web-server/nginx.conf.
  • Check web servers name in the load balancer config file.
  • Copy the application files inside the web server containers.
  • Check database server configuration to database container (from point 1.2) in connections/database.js.
  • Check LXD server configuration to LXD server (from point 1.1) through SSH in connections/lxd.js.
  • Run application through pm2 app.js.

• Final configurations

  • Create a /etc/hosts rule for 'team11cm.com' to go to the load balancer container ip address.
  • Make sure that the url variable in /public/script/main.js is pointing to 'https://team11cm.com' for production.
  • Run the app through browser at 'https://team11cm.com'.