The Gateway service is one of ECOM services. Its objective is to process incoming requests by directly executing them or dispatch them to corresponding services. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to install and run this application in our local machine.

Before we begin we must make sure the following requirements are installed and running.

• python 3.8+
• pip 3+
• docker

Depending on you operating system install/update the above requirements.

With virtualenv installed, we can start forming our application. Let's create and move into a new directory:

$ mkdir gateway
$ cd gateway

Create an empty git repo:

$ git init

Add remote origin:

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/-

Now let's pull:

$ git pull

Switch to 'develop' branch:

$ git checkout develop

We are going to build the docker compose project:

$ cd deployment
$ docker-compose build

Create and open a .env file:

$ vim .env

Write the following:

api_env=development
secret_key=
pg_db_name=e_gateway
pg_db_user=postgres
pg_db_pass=1234
pg_db_host=localhost
pg_db_port=5432

sentry_dsn=

redis_host=localhost
redis_port=6379

customers_host=http://localhost:8001
customers_key=

catalog_host=http://localhost:8002
catalog_key=

We have successfully finished setting up and configuring our Gateway service.

make sure you're in the deployment directory

docker-compose up

Open a bash session inside the gateway container

docker-compose exec gateway /bin/bash

$ ./scripts/makemigrations
$ ./scripts/migrate

running without docker-compose is not recommend

run the fastapi application using uvicorn

$ uvicorn main:app --port 8000 --debug