zimmertr/weatherpy repository overview

⁠Weatherpy

Code Repository: https://github.com/zimmertr/Weatherpy_DockerEmulator⁠ DOCKERFILE: https://github.com/zimmertr/Weatherpy_Docker/blob/master/Dockerfile⁠

⁠Summary

Sidekick container used to generate weather data for my personal website. Docker container is constructed by me using JackWink's project on GitHub found here: https://github.com/JackWink/Weather⁠

Base Image: CentOS 7 Installed Packages:

    cronie:             Cron for weatherpy updates
    git:                Git to clone code to container
    python-setuptools:  Python module to install weatherpy

Deployment Instructions:

Use this container instead, this one will be pulled automatically when necessary: https://hub.docker.com/r/zimmertr/personal-website/⁠

How does it work?

1. Clones latest Centos image.
2. Deployment accepts two volumes that bind to /root/.weatherrc and /root/.weather.txt.
3. Installs cronie, git, and python-setup-tools.
4. Clones down weatherpy and installs it.
5. Creates crontab and weather_updator.sh scripts.
6. Populates weather_updator.sh script with commands used to grab weather data and ultimately populate weather.txt file.
7. Populates crontab file with call to weather_updator.sh every 3 minutes (maximum allowed 500 calls/day). Load crontab into crond.
8. Spawns crond in foreground.