Dashboard

PASTA system dashboard and utilities

The PASTA Dashboard is a Flask driven web application using Ngnix as its frontend web server. Some routes require administration rights to access, but most routes are publicly accessible.

Deployment notes

• To install uwsgi with Conda: conda install -c conda-forge libiconv uwsgi
• To restart service: sudo service dashboard restart
• Flask requires all static content to be in <webapp>/static (see Config.STATIC)

Thanks to Digital Oceans' community tutorials for tips on deploying Nginx with LetsEncrypt on Ubuntu 16.04 and integrating Flask and uwsgi with Nginx.

Full deployment steps:

1. Install Nginx - see above
2. Install LetsEncrypt - see above
3. Install git
4. Create the main user - generally pasta
5. Download and install miniconda
6. Using the conda package manager, create three new Python virtual environments:

• conda env create -n pastaplus_utilities python=3.7 --no-default-packages
• conda env create -n soh python=3.7 --no-default-packages
• conda env create -n dashboard python=3.7 --no-default-packages

1. In the pasta home directory, clone the following git repositories:

• git clone https://github.com/PASTAplus/pastaplus_utilities.git
• git clone https://github.com/PASTAplus/soh.git
• git clone https://github.com/PASTAplus/dashboard.git