Looking for a better way to distribute releases of WGDashboard
donaldzou opened this issue · 8 comments
I researched this a few days ago for another app I am involved in. Here are some options:
- https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html
- https://lincolnloop.com/blog/dissecting-python-zipapp-built-shiv/
- https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/pyoxidizer_comparisons.html
Docker is probably the go-to solution.
Given the security concerns of interfacing with WireGuard it may be wise to reduce dependencies to a minimum.
please avoid docker really dont like woeking with docker and not as easy to use and implament for novices where as your current soloution is easy to follow and works for everyone
I'm currently running it in a Ubuntu 20.04 VM but would run as a docker as well, though it would complicate routing. If you weren't routing to anything outside the WG server, docker would be a simpler way to deploy, but keeping the ability to just git pull and use it is pretty important.
I'd rather vote for a "python virtual environment". That would remain out of the github space but can easily be packaged.
please avoid docker really dont like woeking with docker and not as easy to use and implament for novices where as your current soloution is easy to follow and works for everyone
I agree to this, docker isn't a good way for this project, since i need to wrap both the dashboard and WireGuard into one container.
I'm currently running it in a Ubuntu 20.04 VM but would run as a docker as well, though it would complicate routing. If you weren't routing to anything outside the WG server, docker would be a simpler way to deploy, but keeping the ability to just git pull and use it is pretty important.
I will definitely keep the git method, but i'm looking for a more "elegant" way to let user update the dashboard, instead of using git pull <url> <version_number> ;) and sometimes the update in the bash script wgd.sh isn't working perfectly.
I'd rather vote for a "python virtual environment". That would remain out of the github space but can easily be packaged.
Do you have any good documentation on this? Since I never use this before. Thanks in advanced!
I guess I will keep using GitHub to distribute new versions ;)