About

A Flask app that automatically reloads my docker containers

This project arose from the need and want to manage some of my other projects. I like to self host my discord bots to save some money on cloud compute costs. I came up with a lit of other problems I wanted to solve as well.

1. I want my projects to automatically update when I push new code
2. Changing and reloading my project can be done without direct access to my server
3. My app should be secure
4. Deploying the project itself shouldn't be too much of a hassle

Setup

Environment Variables

Should be located in .env

Note

This file can also be automatically generated by the setup script

FLASK_DEV_FOLDER # Path to directory to host files
FLASK_SECRET_KEY # Key to verify, use src/secret_key.py to generate
FLASK_AUTH_USERNAME # Admin Username
FLASK_AUTH_PASSWORD # Admin Password
FLASK_DOCKER_RELOAD_SCRIPT # Location to docker reload script

Production

No Service (Not Recommended)

1. Setup venv

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install Gunicorn

pip install gunicorn

4. Start Gunicorn in the background

nohup gunicorn -w 4 'server.main:app' > gunicorn.log 2>&1 &

With Service

./scripts/createsocket.sh <username> <server-ip-domain>
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install gunicorn

Development Server

Start Server

python3 -m flask --app server --debug run

Forward Github Webhooks

nohup gh webhook forward --repo=aaatipamula/REPOSITORY-NAME --events=pull_request --url=http://localhost:5000/webhooks &