Deployment of MetaExp-Software

run MetaExp

clone repositories

• run bash script clone-repositories.sh
• this will clone all repositories in ./src

run Docker compose

• docker-compose -f compose-full.yml up

prepare data

• open neo4j localhost:7474, user neo4j, password test, add some data
• call localhost:8000/redis-import and wait
• call http://localhost:8000/train-embeddings/DATABASE_NAME, the database name is in the settings for available datasets in the backend container (utils/config.py, AVAILABLE_DATA_SETS constant)

Issues

• repositories are cloned in subdirectory src within the repository and the src directory is gitignored, that's nice for quick testing but also confusing, clone to external path?
• neo4j data is also stored within the repository (neo4j_data) and the direcotry is gitignored, maybe store somewhere else?
• Python backend has hardcoded URLs, get them from settings

TODO

• move nginx out of interface into own container, easy to run from Docker compose
• Python backend: get config from environment/file, mount config file on container run
• create Docker hub repository and make images available
• use with external neo4j
• document how to load initial data set to neo4j
• more error reporting: e.g. empty neo4j just crashes