Operations

Note

If not stated otherwise, the operations documentation currently applies to all Ekklesia Python web apps, ekklesia-portal and ekklesia-voting. ekklesia-portal is used as an example in the documentation.

• Backend:

  • Main language: Python 3.11

  • Web framework: Morepath

  • Web API framework for ekklesia-notify: FastAPI

  • Testing: pytest, WebTest

• Frontend

  • Templates PyPugJS (similar to Pug) with Jinja as template engine.

  • Sass Framework Bootstrap 4

  • htmx for “AJAX” requests directly from HTML.

• Database: PostgreSQL 15

• Dependency management and build tool: Nix

• Documentation: Sphinx with MyST Markdown parser.

• (Optional) Docker / Kubernetes for running Docker images built by Nix

Contents

• Running In Production
  • NixOS Module
  • With Docker
  • Directly From Source