Best Songs (Docker)

Project to demonstrate using Docker to:

• Build nginx:alpine web container that acts as reverse proxy and forwards requests to application server
• Build python3:alpine app container that deploys python code to query random random song from list of 100 songs store in mysql database
• Use docker-compose to build app, web and database containers and expose port 80 to host system

Prerequisites

• Docker installed and configured OR a node on Play with Docker

Cloning this project from github

git clone https://github.com/skipluck/bestsongs-docker

Change file permissions (only for Play with Docker)

chmod 644 /root/bestsongs-docker/db/dbdump.sql

Executing Docker Componse

cd bestsongs-docker
docker-compose up -d

Using curl to test

curl localhost

run the command again to display a different random song

Testing via browser

Launch browser on host system and naviate to http://localhost. Refresh the page to display a different random song

Testing on Play with Docker

Launch browser on host system and use the following URL pattern http://ip<hyphen-ip>-<session_jd>-<port>.direct.labs.play-with-docker.com (i.e: http://ip172-18-0-10-bc23mf7ndhl000d01gm0.direct.labs.play-with-docker.com/). Refresh the page to display a different random song

Stopping the application

docker-compose stop