avimehenwal/auto-cherrypy-app repository overview

⁠CHERRYPY-APP

A very basic web application using the CherryPy⁠ framework and Python 3.5⁠. The image is quite light thanks to Official python image⁠.

⁠Application in action

⁠RUN

$ docker run --name cpy --rm -d -p 8081:8081 avimehenwal/auto-cherrypy-app

You can point your browser to http://locahost:8080/⁠

⁠LOGS

$ docker logs --follow cpy

⁠STOP

$ docker stop cpy

⁠DEMO

⁠NOTES

To store, persist and query data you need a proper database server. There exist many to choose from with various paradigm support:

• relational: PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB, Firebird
• column-oriented: HBase, Cassandra
• key-store: redis, memcached
• document oriented: Couchdb, MongoDB
• graph-oriented: neo4j

⁠ISSUES

1. Unable to run app with cherryd both on local and inside docker. python app.py - works good within container provided host and port are supplied cherryd app.py

⁠SWARM DEPLOYMENT

1. Create a swarm cluster with 2 or 3 nodes
2. Deploy application as a service
3. Scale up/down
4. Install Rolling updates

⁠RESTful

• https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.7⁠
• http://docs.cherrypy.org/en/latest/advanced.html#restful⁠
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pVtqh99VfmOycus9OoY19jemSYPsXbdia-v2szT7Vs0/edit#slide=id.g229197c9_0_29⁠
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-restful/index.html⁠