Fred's List Systems

Description

This assignment will be to push Fred's List live manually and create a server with the appropraite systems running to serve the site competely and scalably.

Learning Objectives

• Basic systems administration
• SSH administration
• Ubuntu package manager
• Deamons and background processes
• Permissions

Details

Deliverables

• URL to AWS EC2 server running the Fred's List Service through nginx.

Normal Mode

• Setup an AWS account
• Setup a micro ec2 instance and be able to ssh into it
• Clone your Fred's List repository to a directory in your home directory
• Make sure it can run in a virtual environment
• Set up the system to run the django server with gunicorn
• Install and configure nginx to run in front of the django server
• You may turn off caching (or set it to dummy caching)

Hard Mode

• Make the system run on postgresql
• Setup the system to be able to memcached

External Links

• Github Repo
• Setup Tutorial
• AWS