Day 1 of 30 Min Project 12/15/14

December 15th, 2014

Endeavoring to document an experiment I’m going to try. Live-blogging (kind of) my daily habit of working on a side project for 30 minutes a night.

This particular side project is a deep dive into Docker. An attempt to go from basic Node application to a full-fledged, orchestrated, app that I can configure through Docker and some scripts.

Goals:

• Be able to quickly and easily deploy a Node.js-based application through Docker
• This should ultimately include these pieces:
  • Mongo container
  • Redis container
  • Node api container
  • Node/Angular web container
• I want to be able to easily deploy this fully orchestrated suite of containers for unit and integration testing There will undoubtedly be some additional pieces I have to build along the way. I’m starting with a basic api/web application that I can easily repurpose for later purposes.

Immediate goals:

• Skeleton Node.js api app
• Skeleton Node.js/Angular web app

Tonight:

• Take an existing app that I have and repurpose it for my skeleton apps
• I’ve decided that a simple Todo app is a decent starting point for this overall goal - not too complex, but it has enough moving pieces to be interesting (at least for now)
• Starting with api first
  • Need to convert my custom settings file to a convict-driven one instead

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