lrivallain/demo-app repository overview

⁠demo-app

A simple Flask App to get informations about the local node running the app.

⁠Pre-requisites

Python3 installed with pip support.

⁠Installation

Clone the current repository, then:

cd demo-app/
pip install -r requirements.txt
flask run

Then you can join the UI from: http://127.0.0.1:5000⁠

If you need to expose the informations on external IP address, use the following run command:

flask run --host=0.0.0.0

Then you can join the UI from: http://:5000

⁠Features

The app provides 3 flask-based-routes:

• / is a simple redirect to /ui
• /ui provides a simple interface to display to result of API call
• /api is a endpoint to generate the JSON formated data about the system

In the /ui interface you can find:

• A curl command to get the data from a shell
• A reload button to refresh the data displayed on the UI
• A link to the /api endpoint
• A <pre> tag with the raw content of the API call result
• A <ul> list with formated data

In the data you will find the following information:

• architecture: Processor architecture
• hostname: Hostname of the system
• ip-address: IP address of the interface with default route
• mac-address: Mac address of the interface with default route
• platform: Type of OS
• platform-release: Kernel release
• platform-version: The OS version
• processor: Kind of processor
• ram: RAM capacity in GB
• uptime: System uptime in seconds