Fichi's URL shortener

Too much disposable hitechs income and this is what you get.

The system is built from 2 containers:

• HTTPS server
• Redis

Terraform deployment

Terraform is used to deploy both of them in Azure Container Instances.

Here's a table of the Terraform variables:

Variable	Type	Default	Description
container_group_name	String	"fichis-cont-group"	Name for container group in which the containers will run.
storage_account_name	String	"fichisfiles"	Name of the storage account for Redis persistence dumps.
file_share_name	String	"redisfs"	Name of file share in which Redis files will reside.
resource_group_name	String	"fichis-app-rg"	Name of Resource Group in which to create everything.
azure_region	String	"westeurope"	Azure region in which to create all of the resources.
tls_enabled	Boolean	false	Tells the web server whether to listen on HTTP or HTTPS.
http_port	Number	80	HTTP port to listen on.
https_port	Number	443	HTTPS port to listen on.
redis_host	String	"localhost"	Hostname of Redis server, if both containers run in the same container group, they can communicate via localhost.
redis_port	Number	6379	Port on which the Redis server listens.
certificate_file	String	N/A	Path to certificate file to pass to the web server if listening on HTTPS.
key_file	String	N/A	Path to key file to pass to the web server if listening on HTTPS.

App documentation

The app itself looks for a few enviroment variables to determine how and what it should do.

Variable	Description
FICHIS_HTTP_PORT	HTTP port to listen on.
FICHIS_HTTPS_PORT	HTTPS port to listen on.
FICHIS_TLS_ON	If this value is equal to "yes", the server will listen on HTTPS. Otherwise, the server will listen on HTTP.
FICHIS_REDIS_HOST	Hostname on which the Redis server resides.
FICHIS_REDIS_PORT	Port on which the Redis server listens.

API Endpoints

All API calls require you to pass the api_key parameter as well

Endpoint	Method	Description	Parameters
/api/create/ShortenedLink	POST	Used to create shortened links	url - The URL to shorten id - The id to assign the shortened URL
/api/create/AutoShortenedLink	POST	Used to create shortened links without specifying an id	url - the URL to shorten
/api/get/ShortenedLink	GET	Used to retrieve the URL of a shortened link by it's id	id - The ID of the link to retrieve