Dockerized PHP application with SSL

Samuel Andreo — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:43:12 +0000

Hello everyone!

I am migrating an old system I developed some years ago to a containerized environment and I need some help with SSL to serve it through HTTPS. My knowledge about this topic is quite low.

The system is composed by two containers:

Frontend. AngularJS app served above a NGINX image.
Backend. PHP API REST served above the image php:5.6-apache.

Both containers are running in a EC2 instance orchestated by Docker Swarm. The instance is linked to a domain. I know that I could get a certificate from Let's Encrypt but my questions are the following:

Should I use the same certificate for the frontend and the backend (both in same domain but different ports)?
Is there a way to renew it automatically or integrate it in my pipeline? Or what is the way to deal with this in a container environment.

Finally, if anyone have read something explaining this, please write it in the comments :)

Many thanks for your help!

Tracking and saving updates in a collection in MongoDB

Samuel Andreo — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:30:52 +0000

Hello everyone! I am Samuel and I am a young web developer. Actually I am working in a project to help my family's business.
The system is about access control to a vehicle with QR codes. It is composed by a web application (Angular6), mobile application (Ionic3) and REST API (NodeJS) connected to a noSQL DB (MongoDB).

One of my collections is Reservations and the document is structured as follows:

{ _id: number, serviceId: number, datetimePaid: Date, responsible: Person, state: string, tickets: Tickets[], }

And Tickets is something like:

{ price: number, passenger: Person, roundtrip: boolean }

A reservation could be modified by users with differente roles (with higher or lower privileges) but I need to track whenever an user has modified some field of the document to give the administrator a good way to solve possible problems.
The operations or fields that could be updated are:

datetimePaid
responsible (replace it with another Person)
state
tickets[i].passenger
Add or remove elements from the tickets array

I haven't find any native solution provided by MongoDB to it, and I have couple of ideas but I would like to hear your strategies or ways to do it.

Many thanks in advance

Forem: Samuel Andreo

Dockerized PHP application with SSL

Tracking and saving updates in a collection in MongoDB