Le logiciel PIA / The PIA Software

Le logiciel PIA est un outil distribué librement par la CNIL afin de faciliter la réalisation d’analyses d’impact sur la protection des données prévues par le RGPD. PIA-BACK est développé avec le framework RubyOnRails mettant à disposition une API RESTful à destination des outils PIA et PIA-APP.

The PIA software is a free tool published by the CNIL which aims to help data controllers build and demonstrate compliance to the GDPR. PIA-BACK is developped with RubyOnRails providing a RESTful API for the PIA and PIA-APP applications.

Installation

You can follow this runbook for a full installation of pia (back-end) and pia (front-end) applications on a ubuntu 17.10 server.

Requirements

pia (front-end) application and/or pia (stand-alone) application
Ruby 2.3.x
Rails 5.0.x
PostgreSQL 9.4+

System requirements

CPU : i5
Ram: 4Go
Disk Space : 20Go
OS : preferably Linux but other OS works as well

PostgreSQL installation

Basic installation on Debian you can use the following documentation: wiki.debian.org/PostgreSql on Ubuntu you can use: help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL

Also, you need to create a new user with password.

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/atnos/pia-back.git

Create and fill the file database.yml

cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml

Fill the fields username and password with the PostgreSQL username and password created in the previous step.

Create and fill the file application.yml

cp config/application.example.yml config/application.yml

Generate the SECRET_KEY_BASE with: bin/rake secret and paste the secret key in the file.

Install all dependencies

bundle install

Create database

bin/rake db:create

Create tables

bin/rake db:migrate

Run the application

bin/rails s your server will be accessible with the URL localhost:3000
You can specify the option -b to bind to a public IP address or domain name and -p to use a different port.

For example: bin/rails s -b 123.456.789.101 -p 8080 your server will be accessible with the URL 123.456.789.101:8080
Then, in the pia (front-end) application, use this URL to enable the server mode.
Fill the field in "Tools" > "Settings"

Run the application in production mode

Fill the production section in the database.ymlfile.
Create the database: RAILS_ENV=production bin/rake db:create
Create the tables: RAILS_ENV=production bin/rake db:migrate
Run the server: RAILS_ENV=production bin/rails s

Update the application

Update the repository : git pull

Update the database : bin/rake db:migrate

Run the test

bin/rake

Contributions

Docker set-up (Kosmas Schütz): a Docker-Compose configuration for production purpose. Everything is automated from creating containers to setting up the database.
Installation runbook (ylachgar): runbook to install the pia tool server version on a ubuntu 17.10 server.

astachurski/pia-back