simple-site

This project is a demonstration of an Express application that publishes static web pages. The web site runs on port 8080.

The web pages are stored in the directory /public of the project root.

Installation of dependencies

npm install

Running application on localhost using the default port

npm start

You'll output similar to the following:

2022-10-04T18:33:36.002Z  info: Node server is running on port 8080 at Tue Oct 04 2022 11:33:36 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Calling the default page

In a web browser enter the following URL:

http://localhost:8080

Deploying and running the project as a Linux container using buildah and Podman

Navigate to the source code directory in a terminal window.

Then run the following command to create the container image.

buildah bud -t simplesite -f Containerfile .

Follow up with the command to run the container in the background against that image.

podman run -d -p 8080:8080 simplesite

Test that the container is operating properly

Deploying and running the project as a Linux container using Docker

Navigate to the source code directory in a terminal window.

Then run the following command to create the container image.

docker build -t simplesite -f Containerfile .

Follow up with the command to run the container in the background against that image.

docker container run -d -p 8080:8080 simplesite

Test that the container is operating properly

curl localhost:8080

You will get a response similar to the following: