Setting up Seshat

These pages instruct software engineers how to set up the Seshat Django app (including PostgreSQL database) locally and on a cloud server.

We use Pulumi to manage our cloud infrastructure. To set up the infrastructure, you will need to install Pulumi and configure your Azure credentials.

• Setting up Seshat in a local environment
  • Setting up Seshat in a local macOS environment
  • Setting up Seshat in a local Ubuntu environment
  • Setting up Seshat in a local Windows environment
  • Setting up a local Ubuntu environment on a Mac
• MS Azure cloud setup with Pulumi (Alan Turing Institute)
  • Prerequisites
  • Step 1: Log in to Azure
  • Step 2: Create a virtual environment for Pulumi
  • Step 3: Set up a Pulumi stack
  • Step 4: Configure Pulumi
  • Step 5: Deploy the app
  • Manual steps
• AWS cloud setup (Complexity Science Hub)
  • How To Set Up Django with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn on an Ubuntu 22.04 (AWS EC2 Instance)
  • Setting Up AWS EC2 Instance for Seshat Backup Server
  • Bringing in the Codebase
  • Configure GDAL and GEOS
  • Preparing the Database Arrival
  • Merging the Codebase and the database
  • Load the shape data
  • Testing Gunicorn’s ability to serve our Project
  • Setting up a domain and SSL certificate
• Cliopatria shape dataset
• GADM
• How to add new shape datasets to the maps