Service-Exchange and Billing Platform

A SaaS product for P2P service exchange and billing using Stripe payments.

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Setup

This project is built using Cookiecutter Django.

Run:

docker compose up

Your application will start on localhost:8000.

Deployment

Requirements:

• AWS account
• AWS instance with minimum 2 GiB memory
• A custom domain name

Steps:

1. Launch the instance
2. Configure the hosted zones from Route 53
3. Configure the inbound rules (port 8000)

Installing Dependencies:

1. Login to the server as the root user
2. Follow the instructions step by step from here
3. Run:

sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose git

4. Add your deploy keys from GitHub to the server
5. Follow the instructions from GitHub
6. Clone the GitHub repository to the server using SSH
7. Create a new directory named .production
8. Run:

vim /root/Billing-System/.envs/.production/.django

From your local codebase, copy all the content of the file /.envs/.production/.django and paste it in the newly created file using vim.

9. Run:

vim /root/Billing-System/.envs/.production/.postgres

From your local codebase, copy all the content of the file /.envs/.production/.postgres and paste it in the newly created file using vim.

10. Run:

cd /root/Billing-System && docker-compose -f production.yml down && git pull && docker-compose -f production.yml build && docker-compose -f production.yml run --rm django python manage.py migrate && docker-compose -f production.yml up -d

The response should like:

You can now visit your application on the configured domain name.

If the response on the terminal looks like the n the resources provisioned to the instance are not enough, and you will need to upgrade the memory size to at least 2 GiB (works fine).