We have a specific objective, to create a container that is capable of running our microservice, ThoughtsBackend. To do so, we have a couple of requirements:
- We need to copy our code to the container.
- The code needs to be served through a web server.
So, in broad strokes, we need to create a container with a web server, add our code, configure it so it runs our code, and serve the result when starting the container.
We will store most of the configuration files inside subdirectories in the ./docker directory.
As a web server, we will use uWSGI (https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). uWSGI is a web server capable of serving our Flask application through the WSGI protocol. uWSGI is quite configurable, ...
