voting_wars

Voting wars, a project to teach dockerizing distributed microservices.

Configuration

The configuration of the application is handled through environment variables using sane default values to enable local development.

• RABBITMQ_HOST - [default: localhost] The host address of rabbitmq.
• RABBITMQ_PORT - [default: 5672] The port number rabbitmq is hosted on.
• RABBITMQ_USERNAME - [default: guest] The username for rabbitmq login.
• RABBITMQ_PASSWORD - [defautl: guest] The password associated with the given username.
• RABBITMQ_EXCHANGE - [default: votes] The rabbitmq exchange to send queued messages to.
• REDIS_HOST - [default: localhost] Hostname of the redis server.
• REDIS_PORT - [default: 6379] The port number redis is hosted on.
• REDIS_DB - [default: 0] Which database to use inside redis.

Developing locally

• Create a new python virtual envrionment
• Install the necessary requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
• From the top level directory, install the application with pip install -e .
• Run the application by calling the entrypoint script voting-web Note: For more effective local dev experience, start a rabbitmq and redis server locally with default configuration options