neurolibre / neurolibre-data-api

Source code (nginx, systemctl and python-flask) for http://neurolibre-data.conp.cloud/

neurolibre-data-api

Source code (nginx, systemctl and python-flask) for http://neurolibre-data.conp.cloud/ Authentification is needed.

Data server

http://neurolibre-data.conp.cloud (test)

http://neurolibre-data-prod.conp.cloud (prod)

Environment

• Nginx: Nginx gives access to the server cached neurolibre books (both for downloading, and previewing content) and the neurolibre databases collected with Repo2Data

Installation

After cloning the project, add a symbolic link to create the nginx:

git clone [e-mail]:neurolibre/neurolibre-data-api.git
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf PATH/TO/REPO/neurolibre-data-api/nginx/neurolibre-data-api.config

You can now start the nginx process and check its status:

sudo service nginx restart
sudo systemctl status nginx

Python API endpoint

http://neurolibre-data.conp.cloud:8081/ (test)

http://neurolibre-data-prod.conp.cloud:29876/ (prod)

Environment

• python-flask: The python library Flask is used to create the REST JSON API.
• systemctl: Shoud be included by default in any linux based OS.

Installation

Spawn the python-flask deamon process as a systemd service. After cloning the project, add a symbolic link to create the systemd service:

git clone [e-mail]:neurolibre/neurolibre-data-api.git
sudo ln -s /etc/systemd/system/neurolibre-data-api.service PATH/TO/REPO/neurolibre-data-api/systemctl/neurolibre-data-api.service

You can now start the daemon process and check its status:

sudo systemctl start neurolibre-data-api
sudo systemctl status neurolibre-data-api

Update and debugging

To update the api, you just need to modify the python script neurolibre-data-api/neurolibre-data-api.py. Then you can double check errors by checking the latest logs from:

journalctl -u neurolibre-data-api.service

Future developments

1. Secure over https
2. Deploy the file server and api pods inside the k8s cluster