Deploying a Docker Container to Digital Ocean with sshfs

In this post I'll talk about the way I set up the directory structure for my data science bootcamp capstone project, and how I mounted my droplet in my local file system in order to deploy my web application. I also used of a couple of makefiles so I didn't have to keep re-typing the same long shell commands in the terminal and I'll explain how that works too.

Broccoli directory structure

Here's the makefile on my local system:

mount:
    sshfs broccoli.floatingeye.net:/home/mlehotay/broccoli broccoli

umount:
    sudo umount broccoli

upload:
    rm -rf broccoli/app/

    mkdir broccoli/app
    cp foods.py broccoli/app/
    cp main.py broccoli/app/

    mkdir broccoli/app/static
    mkdir broccoli/app/static/images
    cp -r images/*.jpg broccoli/app/static/images/

    mkdir broccoli/app/templates
    cp templates/index.html broccoli/app/templates/
    cp templates/recommend.html broccoli/app/templates/
    cp templates/survey.html broccoli/app/templates/
    cp templates/thankyou.html broccoli/app/templates/
    cp templates/gtag.html broccoli/app/templates/

    mkdir broccoli/app/data
    mkdir broccoli/app/data/json
    cp data/db.py broccoli/app/data/
    cp data/foods.csv broccoli/app/data/

download:
    cp -pr broccoli/backup/ .

login:
    ssh broccoli.floatingeye.net

Here's the makefile on the droplet:

build:
    docker build -t appimage .
run:
    docker run -d --name appcontainer -p 80:80 appimage
    docker cp backup/broccoli.db appcontainer:/app/data/
stop:
    docker stop appcontainer
cleanup: backup
    docker rmi -f appimage &&\
    docker rm appcontainer

data:
    -mv broccoli.db broccoli.`cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 8`.db
    -docker cp appcontainer:/app/data/broccoli.db .
    -docker cp appcontainer:/app/data/json/ .

backup: data
    cp -pr broccoli*.db json/ backup/

clean-data: backup
    rm broccoli*.db
    rm json/*.json

And here are the commands I run to deploy my app:

$ cd sandbox/broccoli
$ make mount
$ make upload
$ make login

$ cd broccoli
$ make stop
$ make cleanup
$ make build
$ make run
$ exit

$ make download
$ make umount

Deploying a Docker Container to Digital Ocean with sshfs

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