eLwazi Catalogue

The catalogue is a React webapp using react admin

Local Installation:

Install the application dependencies by running:

npm install

Development:

Start the application in development mode by running:

npm run dev

Production

Build the application in production mode by running:

npm run build

Deployment

The app can be deployed as a docker image.

CI/CD

We use gitlab for CI/CD. The github repo is mirrored in gitlab. The pipeline is defined in .gitlab-ci.yml. It deploys on the ait k8s. It uses the following gitlab variables:

• project variables
  • KUBECTL_NAMESPACE - namespace specific for this catalogue project
• group variables
  • KUBECONFIG - secret file containing connection info to ait k8s cluster
  • KUBERNETES_MASTER - address of k8s cluster
  • DOCKER_CONFIG_JSON - secret file used for k8s to set up the image pull secret from the image repo on gitlab.

flowchart
    gitlab   ===> |1. pull mirroring| github 
    gitlab   ===> |2. trigger| pipeline
    pipeline ===> |3. build and push image|container_repo
    pipeline ===> |4. deploy|k8s

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CI/CD TO-DOs

• trigger pipeline after push
• use gitlab k8s integration
• setup a gitlab environment
• setup gitlab release tags
• speed docker image build
• use access tokens not tied to a personal account for gitlab access