allen-woods / the-supertask

Passion project and professional capstone, this is my deep-dive playground for learning by doing.

The Supertask

Personal portfolio site for the second half of 2020.

Technologies planned for project:

• Caddy Server
• CircleCI
• Custom Authentication
• Docker Machine
• Golang
• GraphQL (gqlgen)
• MongoDB
• ReactJS
• Redis
• WebAssembly (?)

TODO:

• Dockerize local environment (ongoing)
• Create draft of architecture (done)
• Begin building API
  • Design toward implementation of Apollo Server and Apollo Client. (on track)
  • Provide single source of truth for models.
    • Will be migrating to use of HashiCorp Vault.
  • Define Redis and MongoDB secrets as environment variables.
    • These will be managed by Vault, see above.
  • Create initialization for unique email fields requirement.
    • gRPC "user" microservice will manage this.
  • Successfully create and persist the following accounts:
    • Global super user to replace "root" in MongoDB.
    • Database owners, each dedicated to a given microservice.

DONE:

• Implement docker/mongo and docker/redis
  • Implement MongoDB with Authentication
    • Wrote custom shell scripts for initializing database.
    • Implemented string interpolation of environment variables to keep secrets secure.
    • Researched and feasibility tested heredoc and escaped line break options for more readable JavaScript (all failed).
  • Implement Redis securely (done)
    • Fixed broken config support in docker-compose using chown and the redis user inside the image.
    • Disable THP support inside the container.
    • Removed unnecessary volume "persist_redis_backups" (should be /data).
  • Make sure both data stores are persisted (done)
• API
  • Define User schema. (done)
  • Generate User model and resolvers. (done)
  • Populate resolvers with logic. (in progress)