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Assignment 2

This document provides instructions for Assignment 2 of the DASS course. Students must dockerize and deploy their MERN web app from Assignment 1 by packaging it into four Docker containers - one each for the backend, frontend, database, and a container with Nginx to act as a load balancer and route requests. Students need to create Dockerfiles and a docker-compose file to build and run the containers. Their solution will be evaluated by connecting to the docker deployment on their local machine over the IIIT network. The marking scheme and required file structure are also outlined.

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Assignment 2

This document provides instructions for Assignment 2 of the DASS course. Students must dockerize and deploy their MERN web app from Assignment 1 by packaging it into four Docker containers - one each for the backend, frontend, database, and a container with Nginx to act as a load balancer and route requests. Students need to create Dockerfiles and a docker-compose file to build and run the containers. Their solution will be evaluated by connecting to the docker deployment on their local machine over the IIIT network. The marking scheme and required file structure are also outlined.

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🐬 DASS Assignment 2

Deadline: 14th February, 11:55 PM

Concerned TAs - Gurkirat Singh, Shlok Pandey, Tushar Jain, Vikrant Dewangan

Post all doubts on Moodle or Teams (TA Discussions and Queries channel). Messenger requests WILL NOT BE entertained!
Dockerize and deploy your MERN web app. In this assignment, you will package and dockerize your assignment 1 web app.

Deployment is a must skill that any software engineer should know. Unless you can deploy your application, no one will
ever be able to use your application, which renders your application useless.

Docker containers are easily deployable, and it gives it’s developers the option to easily pack, ship, and run any application
as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container, and deploy it virtually anywhere.

Dockerizing will help you down the line in not just personal skills, but also in the projects you are under. A containerized
deployed project will be of much more benefit to the client than an undeployed project. With many of your clients not
technically sound and not having a proficient technical team, it becomes an essential skill to learn packaging and deploying a
live product on the cloud, so that the final product handed over to the client is modular and production ready.

Requirements
You need to deploy your app (locally) on a url (say abc.com). Your backend should be hosted at /api and your frontend
should be at /

You need to create 4 docker containers with

One should host Backend

One with a static server hosting Frontend

One hosting nginx

One for Database (Optional, can also use any online service also like mongo-db atlas)

Nginx is a load balancer, web server and reverse proxy engine. For this assignment you just need to use it as a routing
service which will routes with /api to your backend container and / to your frontend container

A docker-compose file that will boot up all these containers.

While evaluation, we would test it on IIIT network. You will be asked to connect to LAN/VPN and run docker on your
localhost. We should be able to view your app on our machines from your IPv4 address.

Viva will be held to make sure you understand what you coded in those Dockerfile.

Marking Scheme
18 % dockerization and deployment of backend

17 % dockerization and deployment of frontend

30 % Combining with nginx and total deployment

35 % Viva

Deliverables

DASS Assignment 2 1
You need to code 4 files - Dockerfile for frontend, Dockerfile for backend, and configuration file for nginx server. This
along with a docker-compose file to run it together.

Submission must be in the following format:

<roll_no>/
|--backend/
|-- package.json
|-- Dockerfile
... other files
|--frontend/
|-- package.json
|-- Dockerfile
... other files
|--nginx/
|-- local.conf
|-- docker-compose.yml
|-- README.md

DASS Assignment 2 2

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