README-assignment-5.md

Assignment 5

1. Checkout the commit with tag name assignment-5 (its commit SHA should be 23c5fd2d8926797ad21754b8c61bc5206b0e0883)

2. Unzip the Assignment5-secrets.zip file.

3. Move the unzipped files to the correct locations:

   • ./secrets/auth_service_mongo_uri.txt
   • ./secrets/auth_service_session_secret.txt
   • ./secrets/question_service_mongo_uri.txt
   • ./secrets/user_service_username.txt
   • ./secrets/user_service_password.txt
   • ./secrets/user_service_host.txt

4. Ensure that the Docker daemon is running. The easiest way to do this is to launch the Docker Desktop application.

5. Ensure that Docker swarm mode is enabled (this is required to use Docker secrets). To enable Docker swarm mode, run the following command in a terminal:

   docker swarm init

6. To build the Docker images (using the Docker compose file) and run the Docker containers, open a terminal in the root directory of the project and run the following command:

   # To build the images and run the containers
   docker-compose up --build
   
   # To build the images and run the containers in the background
   docker-compose up --build -d

7. Just like assignment 3, we have a basic user with username john and password password, and an admin / maintainer user with username mary and password mary.

8. To stop all the Dockers containers, either press Ctrl + C or run the following command:

   docker-compose down