rocketeer55 / EVT-Technology-Challenge

Create an environment to display a single webpage. The completion of the goal will consist of a single command or script that will instantiate the automation of building a webserver that will display a single webpage.

EVT Technology Challenge

How To Use

All you need to run this webserver is to have Docker installed and running, then execute the build_and_run.sh script provided in this repository. The script tells Docker to pull from this repository, and build a new image defined in the Dockerfile. The Dockerfile builds a base image from Httpd/Apache 2.4 offical image. The Dockerfile then copies the provided EVT html page into the container. After the container has finished building, the httpd image is run. The container is called evt-technology-challenge, and the instance of the container that is run is called evt-tech-instance.

To view the webpage after the script has run, visit localhost:8080 in your browser.

The webserver will continue running in the background until manually stopped.

What Tools I Used and Why

1. Docker

   I used Docker because I had seen a presentation on it before, and I liked that it is cross platform. Also after just a bit of research I found it is easy for Docker to build from a GitHub repository, which I knew I wanted to do for this task.

2. Httpd/Apache

   After searching for a little bit about running a simple webserver with Docker, using httpd seemed like the simplest solution. Additionally, there is a official image of httpd/apache 2.4 for Docker, as described above.