Initial Steps

This section assumes that you have completed all steps in Linc Development > Initialization

For the purpose of LINC coupling to DANDI Archive, you'll first want to fork the dandi-infrastructure repository.

Understanding "dandi-infrastructure"

dandi-infrastructure is a repository containing a handful of Terraform configuration files. The baseline for all these files; however, is an external library, known as girder. girder is a series of Terraform modules maintained by Kitware

girder is sub-divided further into specific Terraform providers that interact with the module. In the case of LINC Brain,

First Steps for Deployment of Staging API

• In your relevant Terraform GitHub repository, enter a new project_slug within api.tf in the api section -- this will be the name of the application that will be initialized in Heroku

• (For staging), go into your Dandi Archive-related, and alter the application name in the "Create Heroku Build" step backend-staging-deploy.yml GitHub Action Workflow

• Next, run your Terraform Plan via Terraform Cloud -- a shortcoming of the current setup is that the Deployment will initially fail - You'll next need to "Deploy" the Dandi-related Archive app via the backend-staging-deploy.yml workflow

• Next, run your Terraform Plan one more time - This will notice the Procfile in your Dandi-related Archive, in which the appropriate Heroku Dyno workers will then be properly provisioned

• The API working correctly relies on a handful of infrastructure being set up, as well as specific authentication variables being set....