AdvLabDB

About

AdvLabDB is a database with a web interface for labs.

Admins have an interface to manage students, groups, experiments, appointments, marks and analyse data.

Assistants have a separate interface to set marks and schedule appointments with students.

Getting Started

You can deploy AdvLabDB easily using Docker. Take a look at compose.yaml as a starting point for usage with docker compose.

The container uses two volumes:

• One volume has to be mounted at /volumes/data in the container. This volume has to contain the two files settings.ini and secrets.ini:
  • A template for settings.ini can be found at deploy/settings_template.ini. This template will be automatically copied to the data volume as default settings file if a settings file does not already exist.
  • The file secrets.ini will be generated automatically after the first start of the container if it does not exist.
• The second volume has to be mounted at /volumes/logs to store logs.

After configuring a compose file, run the command sudo docker compose run advlabdb manage.py setup init-db to initialize the database with a guide.

After the database initialization, run sudo docker compose up -d to start the container.

All inclusive

If you don't want to use your own reverse proxy, you can use compose.yaml directly with Traefik as a reverse proxy:

• Create a directory ~/advlabdb (You use another path, but then change it also in the following steps).
• Move into the directory ~/advlabdb and clone the repository into it as repo: git clone https://codeberg.org/mo8it/AdvLabDB.git ~/advlabdb/repo
• Copy the directory deploy/traefik into the parent directory ~/advlabdb: cp ~/advlabdb/repo/deploy/traefik ~/advlabdb
• Open the file ~/advlabdb/traefik/etc/traefik.yaml, uncomment email: EMAIL and replace EMAIL it with your email address. You will receive a notification to this email address if any problem with your SSL certificate (for https) occur, for example certificate expiration.
• Open the file ~/advlabdb/traefik/etc/dynamic, uncomment rule: Host(`SERVER_NAME`) and replace SERVER_NAME with your domain, advlabdb.mo8it.com for example.
• Change the time zone TZ in ~/advlabdb/traefik/compose.yaml if it is not Europe/Berlin. Use the command tzselect to find out your time zone.
• Now start Traefik by running the command sudo docker compose up -d in the directory ~/advlabdb/traefik.
• Create directories for the data and logs volumes: mkdir ~/advlabdb/{data,logs}
• Change the time zone TZ in ~/advlabdb/repo/compose.yaml if it is not Europe/Berlin.
• Initialize the database by running sudo docker compose run advlabdb manage.py setup init-db in the directory ~/advlabdb/repo and following the guide.
• Start AdvLabDB by running the command sudo docker compose up -d in the directory ~/advlabdb/repo.
• Visit the domain that you specified in the Traefik configuration as SERVER_NAME to test if AdvLabDB is running. If this is not the case, open an issue, maybe I could help :)

What does the name mean?

Advanced Lab DataBase