Deploy panoptes for production

[fgvieira]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I need a way to monitor running snakemake pipelines in a production environment, and decided to try panoptes.
From the singularity image, it was super easy to get it to work!

However, a warning message comes up that:

WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in production deployment. Use a production WSGI server instead.

I looked a bit around but could only find a generic flask tutorial, but it is not clear how that applies to panoptes (e.g. how do you define the SECRET_KEY?).

Is there any documentation on how to deploy panoptes for production.
How would you recommend to do it?

[fgvieira]

Not sure if it the best way to do it, but I managed to do it with waitress.

1. Follow instruction in https://github.com/panoptes-organization/panoptes#install-from-conda-and-run-server
2. Also install waitress in the environment
3. Instead of run the server with panoptes, run waitress-serve --port 5000 panoptes.app:app

@fgypas I'll leave it open, since it would still be nice to have an "official" way to do it. 😄

[fgypas]

Thanks a lot @fgvieira
That's a good solution to add WSGI server and feel free to open a PR.