A tiny service that records location checkins

Create an RDS PostgreSQL instance that can be connected to from your server, then:

sudo apt-get install -y python-setuptools postgresql-client libpq-dev python-dev
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv
virtualenv env
env/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

The database is configured with the following environment variables:

• CHECKIN_DB_HOST is the DB host; it defaults to localhost
• CHECKIN_DB_PORT is the DB port; it defaults to 5432
• CHECKIN_DB_USER is the DB user
• CHECKIN_DB_PASSWORD is the DB password for the given DB user

The admin interface is configured with the following environment variables:

• CHECKIN_ADMIN_USER
• CHECKIN_ADMIN_PASSWORD

The Google Maps API key is set with:

• CHECKIN_GOOGLE_API_KEY

Set the above environment variables to whatever is appropriate from your RDS configuration and then run the app:

gunicorn -w 4 -b 0.0.0.0:9000 checkin:app

In reality, you'll want to deploy gunicorn behind Nginx, with Nginx talking to gunicorn over a UNIX socket. Configuring gunicorn and Nginx is beyond the scope of this document.