BlueVajra / task_api

Task api in go

Simple JSON API server in Golang

This is a small sample project I used to help me learn go. It will expand and change as I try to add more functionality

• First iteration uses a text file to store json
• Next steps:
  • Implement Tests
  • Refactor to multiple files
  • implement Postgresql

Working in conjunction with

• Scott Skender
• Mike Gehard

Get and Post tasks

our little server handles POST commands to /api/tasks with in the following format:

{"Name":"Wash Dishes","Description":"Is the name not clear enough?"}

you can also get all tasks with /api/tasks

Take a look online!

With the help of Mike Gehard, we were able to deploy our server below! http://107.170.31.184:8080/tasks

Get it running!

I would write a little intro here to get things up and running on your machine... but the Golang docs doa good job at that:

http://golang.org/doc/

Building for Linux

In order to cross compile for Linux on OSX, make sure you have cross compilation enabled. You can then use GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o bin/task_api-linux from the root of this project to build the Linux binary.

Deployment

The current deployment model is:

1. ssh to box ssh root@107.170.31.184
2. connect to running tmux session tmux attach -t cory
3. stop running server using ctrl-c
4. scp new binary to server from your local machine scp <local-path-to-binary> root@107.170.31.184:~
5. restart binary in tmuxh session
6. detach from session ctrl-b d

Deploying the service via Ansible is in the works. Right now two groups are supported, local and production.

• The local group runs against a Ubuntu 14.04 server that runs on your development machine.
• The production group goes against a Digital Ocean machine.

Currently the Ansible scripts can run the ping/pong command using ansible local -m ping -i deployment/hosts or ansible production -m ping -i deployment/hosts.

To set up a local development server:

1. Install VirtualBox and Vagrant
2. Run vagrant box add ubuntu1404 https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box
3. Run vagrant init ubuntu1404
4. Run vagrant up and the box should be up and running.
5. Test that by running ansible local -m ping -i deployment/hosts --private-key=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key.