Add one-click install script for project #10
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The featureService is not super easy to set up: one must install postgres, postgis, populate the database, install the node service, etc. As such, it's worth automating the process to make it easier to set up a new instance of the featureService; that's what the new `install.sh` script does. The script installs postgres and the featureService app on the same host so that we don't have to manage multiple servers for the database and application layers. The featureService is exposed over port 80 so that postgres's port can be hidden in the firewall and we don't have to worry about securing the database.
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The featureService is not super easy to set up: one must install postgres, postgis, populate the database, install the node service, etc. As such, it's worth automating the process to make it easier to set up a
new instance of the featureService; that's what the new
install.shscript does.The script installs postgres and the featureService app on the same host so that we don't have to manage multiple servers for the database and application layers. The featureService is exposed over port 80 so that postgres's port can be hidden in the firewall and we don't have to worry about securing the database.
An alternative to the
install.shscript that I considered was using Docker. However, Azure Web Apps for Linux doesn't seem to support docker-compose yet and it would be an anti-pattern to have a single Docker image that contains the database and the application. So for now, the good-old bash script to set up a new machine will have to do.