Amazon Linux 2¶

Quickstart¶

RHEL/CentOS 7

Installing on RHEL/CentOS 7

Instructions applicable RHEL 7, CentOS 7 and Amazon Linux 2.

GovReady-Q calls requires Python 3.6 or higher to run and several Linux packages to provide full functionality.

# if necessary, enable EPEL and IUS repositories
rpm -i https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm https://rhel7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm

# install dependencies
sudo yum install \
unzip python36-pip python36-devel \
graphviz \
pandoc xorg-x11-server-Xvfb wkhtmltopdf \

# optional install gcc to build the uWSGI Python package.
sudo yum install gcc

# optional insall of postgress and/or mysql
sudo yum install postgresql mysql-devel

GovReady-Q calls out to git to fetch apps from git repositories, but that requires git version 2 or later because of the use of the GIT_SSH_COMMAND environment variable. RHEL stock git is version 1. Switch it to version 2+ by using the IUS package:

# if necessary, remove any git currently installed
yum remove git
# install git2u
yum install git2u

Installing GovReady-Q

Clone GovReady-Q source code and install.

# clone GovReady-Q
git clone https://github.com/govready/govready-q
cd govready-q

# install Python 3 packages
pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt

# install Bootstrap and other vendor resources locally
./fetch-vendor-resources.sh

Run the final setup commands to initialize a local Sqlite3 database in local/db.sqlite to make sure everything is OK so far:

# run database migrations (sqlite lite database used by default)
python3 manage.py migrate

# load a few critical modules
python3 manage.py load_modules

# create superuser with initial account
python3 manage.py first_run

Start GovReady-Q

# run the server
python3 manage.py runserver

Visit your GovReady-Q site in your web browser at:

http://localhost:8000/

Additional Details¶

Deployment utilities¶

Sample apache.conf, superviser.ini, and update.sh files can be found in the source code directory deployment/rhel.

Creating a UNIX user named `govready-q`¶

You may find it useful to create a user specifically for GovReady-Q. Do this before installing GovReady-Q.

# Create user.
useradd govready-q -c "govready-q"

# Change permissions so that Apache can read static files.
chmod a+rx /home/govready-q

Upgrading pip¶

Upgrade pip because the RHEL package version is out of date (we need >=9.1 to properly process hashes in requirements.txt)

pip3 install --upgrade pip

Installing as UNIX user named `govready-q`¶

Switch to the govready-q user and install Q:

sudo su govready-q
cd
git clone https://github.com/govready/govready-q
cd govready-q
git checkout {choose the tag for the current released version}
pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt
./fetch-vendor-resources.sh

Installing drivers for Postgres, MySQL¶

# if you intend to use optional configurations, such as the MySQL adapter, you
# may need to run additional `pip3 install` commands, such as:
# pip3 install --user -r requirements_mysql.txt