Increase deployability

[thorbjoernl]

Increase ease of deployment

Summary

Relates to #16. The Middleware should be deployable easily, by non-developers. Documentation should be at a level where someone outside the dev-team can use the middleware. Deploying the middleware and getting a test service up should be relatively quick, not requiring too many commands.

Perhaps some shell scripts for deploying each service (which does poetry set up etc.)

Tasks

What tasks should be solved, for this issue to be complete?

• Implement whatever

Tests

What test cases should be implemented for this issue to be completed?

• Test whatever

Notes

Anything else?

[thorbjoernl]

As no external dependencies are required to run the middleware, anyone who deploys the project does not need to set up a virtual environment to run it. Poetry is not required.

Python will struggle to run it properly and will complain about not finding imports if running a script

E.g.:

python services/chat_service/chat_service.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ".../middleware/services/chat_service/chat_service.py", line 1, in
from middleware.middlewareAPI import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'middleware'

If instead running with -m as described here, it works however:

python -m services.chat_service.chat_service

This should be included in any documentation we produce, for deploying the product.

[thorbjoernl]

Closing this issue as the current level of documetation and examples should be sufficient to deploy the project reasonably easily.