Atlas

Atlas is a RESTful API that interacts with servers to deploy and maintain Web Express at University of Colorado Boulder.

Features

• Chronological tasks run to keep a small number of instances available for assignment to end users.
• POST to create additional instances on demand.
• Available instances are replaced every night.
• All items are versioned.
• Backups and restore to new instance.

API

• Prefers to receive JSON encoded POST request.
• CRUD Web Express instances

Local setup

• Create and activate virtual environment

  virtualenv .venv
  source .venv/bin/activate

• Install requirements

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Install MongoDB - Homebrew

  brew tap mongodb/brew
  brew install mongodb-community@4.2
  # Run as a Homebrew service
  brew services start mongodb-community@4.2

• Create config files and update with your information

  cp atlas/config_local.py.example atlas/config_local.py
  cp atlas/config_servers.py.example atlas/config_servers.py

• Start Atlas

  FLASK_APP=run.py flask run

• Import sample database

  mongorestore [path/to/dump/location]