hdc3a-cron

The cron container for monitoring the DRS dropbox for LOADREPROT files

log files are in the logs subdirectory

Technology Stack

Language

NodeJS

Framework

Express

Development Operations

Docker Compose

Local Development Environment Setup Instructions

1: Clone the repository to a local directory

git clone git@github.huit.harvard.edu:LTS/hdc3a-cron.git

2: Create app config

Create config file for environment variables

Make a copy of the config example file ./env-example.txt
Rename the file to .env
Replace placeholder values as necessary

Note: The config file .env is specifically excluded in .gitignore and .dockerignore, since it contains credentials it should NOT ever be committed to any repository.

3: Start

START

This command builds all images and runs all containers specified in the docker-compose-local.yml configuration.

docker-compose -f docker-compose-local.yml up -d --build --force-recreate

4: SSH into Container (optional)

Run docker exec to execute a shell in the container by name

Open a shell using the exec command to access the hdc3a-cron container.

docker exec -it cron bash

5: Stop

STOP AND REMOVE

This command stops and removes all containers specified in the docker-compose-local.yml configuration. This command can be used in place of the 'stop' and 'rm' commands.

docker-compose -f docker-compose-local.yml down

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