Neptune Deployment

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Deploying Neptune: Reaching for the Stars

Neptune is your gateway to a world where students collaborate, connect, and aim for the stars. With features like an AI chatbot, class lists, chatrooms, a friends list, and customizable themes, Neptune fosters a thriving student community.

Follow these steps to deploy Neptune and ensure everything runs smoothly!

System Architecture

Below is an overview of Neptune’s architecture:

System Architecture

Here is an image of the chatroom in depth, since it uses WebSocket. Chatroom

Roles:

Scrum Master: Nolan

Assistant Scrum: Shawn

UX: Akshaj

Deployment Admin: Kanhay

Assistant Deployment Admin: Yash

Backend Engineers: Arya & Yash

Accessing AWS EC2

Log in to Cockpit: https://cockpit.stu.nighthawkcodingsociety.com/system/terminal

Username: ubuntu

Password:

Nginx

1. Navigate to nginx: cd /etc/nginx/sites-available

2. Create an nginx config file: sudo nano neptune_backend

3. Activate configuration: cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled, then sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/neptune.stu /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

4. Validate: sudo nginx -t

5. Restart nginx: sudo systemctl restart nginx - Nginx: reverse proxy that exposes our localhost server to the web through our website - The website is an ip address given a name through a dns (domain name service)

6. Certbot: sudo certbot --nginx - Gives the website a https certificate

Changing Code will require Deployment Updates

1. Run git pull before making changes

2. Open terminal in VSCode and run python main.py

3. Make changes that are needed

4. Commit the changes locally

5. Test docker-compose up or sudo docker-compose up in VSCode terminal

6. Sync change from UI/git push from terminal

Pulling Changes into AWS EC2 deployment

1. Navigate to repo: cd ~/neptune_backend

2. docker-compose down

3. git pull

4. Rebuild docker container: docker-compose up -d --build

Troubleshooting checks on AWS EC2

1. Try to curl: curl localhost:8204

2. Run docker-compose ps

3. Run docker ps

Changing Code in VSCode

1. Run git pull before making changes.

2. Open terminal in VSCode and run python main.py.

3. Make changes that are needed.

4. Commit the changes locally.

5. Test docker-compose up or sudo docker-compose up in VSCode terminal.

6. Push changes to GitHub.

Resetting Database

1. Open AWS terminal 2. Run cd neptune_backend 3. Run source venv/bin/activate ———-