• Based on Rails app Shopping-App-IRIS
• All services are containerized.
• Nginx for reverse proxy and load balancing.
• Uses docker-compose.
• Can scale with load balancing using Nginx.
• Mysql data and Nginx conf file are persisted using volumes.
• Just Nginx entry port is exposed to host and other services communicate intternally in docker network.
• Nginx rate limiting added (set to 1000r/s).

1. Clone this repo.

git clone https://github.com/shivamanipatil/iris_systems_task.git

2. Build the images for containers.

sudo docker-compose build

3. Spins the containers.

docker-compose up --scale web=3

Launches 3 instaces of rails application load balanced by Nginx.

4. For the first time create and run migrations for the database for rails.

docker-compose run --rm web rake db:create db:migrate

5. Application is live on localhost:8080
6. For daily(at 00:00 can be changed) database dump with name as shop1_development_date_time in created db_dump directory, add this line to crontabfile (maybe use crontab -e)

@daily docker-compose exec db /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=complexpassword shop1_development > ~/db_dump/shop1_development_`date '+%Y_%m_%d__%H_%M_%S'`.sql