Details

WIP... Simple interface to run BalenaOS and attach to a application on BalenaCloud. Allowing you to create virtual devices in your application. Super helpful for end-to-end testing. Still need to add the UI and other endpoints.

Getting Started

1. Download your config.json from BalenaCloud and add to the root of this project
2. set balena/aufs2overlay.sh to executable chmod +x aufs2overlay.sh
3. docker-compose -f dev.yml build --no-cache (rebuild also when you install new packages)
4. docker-compose -f dev.yml up
5. Endpoint available at localhost:5000

Docker API

We can access the docker socket by using a volume mount on the api container. To learn more about this reference: https://medium.com/better-programming/about-var-run-docker-sock-3bfd276e12fd

ToDo

Frontend

• Create base frontend (list devices, and app configs)
• Add a app config ui
• Add a device
• Change status of the device (start, stop, delete)
• Loaders for api calls when adding

API

• Save app config to disk
• Copy and edit app config for creating a device
• Separate routes to multi files with Blueprints
• Start and stop devices

Helpful hints

Basic api in python

• https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/creating-apis-with-python-and-flask
• https://smirnov-am.github.io/running-flask-in-production-with-docker/