Installation

Requirements and info

Python: CPython 3.6+

Operating system: Linux

Prerequisites: docker-compose (recommended) or virtualenv, npm.

Git repository: https://gitlab.com/librespacefoundation/satnogs/satnogs-network.git

Clone

Consult the GitLab page on how to clone the repository.

Configuration

Set your environmental variables:

$ cp env-dist .env
$ ${EDITOR} .env

Installation

Quick install

The recommended quick install method is to use Docker Compose. This method will start separate containers for Django runserver, Celery, MariaDB and Redis.

The Virtualenv quick install method lacks a task queue, uses SQLite as a database and memcached for caching. It is only recommended for frontend development.

Docker Compose (recommended)

Change into the cloned repository directory:

$ cd <path/to/clone>

To run SatNOGS Network service:

$ ./satnogs.sh up

To stop SatNOGS Network service:

$ ./satnogs.sh compose down

To clean-up SatNOGS Network installation:

$ ./satnogs.sh clean

Virtualenv

This installation method is recommended only for frontend development purposeses.

Change into cloned repository directory:

$ cd <path/to/clone>

To run SatNOGS Network in a virtualenv:

$ ./satnogs.sh develop

To remove SatNOGS Network virtualenv:

$ ./satnogs.sh remove

Production install

For production installations, check Deploying Django.

Gunicorn

If gunicorn is used as the WSGI server then to start the application use:

$ ./bin/djangoctl.sh run

and to bring Celery up:

$ ./bin/djangoctl.sh run_celery