Executable documentation for local development

[ggVGc]

This is an attempt to simplify the setup process in order to work on the meta and data services. It does not cover everything, such as nginx setup for frontend development or restoring of production databases, but it should provide the minimum in order to start both services.

TODO

• Add instructions for nginx setup

[jonathanthiry]

It looks nice! Unfortunately, I cannot use LXC easily on my Mac, so I'm thinking if @emmaicos could try this out and give some feedback. Thanks!

[jonathanthiry]

Do you think it is still an interesting idea to pursue? Or should we go for another approach, possibly with Docker containers?

[ahd44]

In general I think it's quite useful and a good approach but I do think things could be improved a bit. I've been adding to it here and there (I guess my last commit was in August, so not so much recently), but it could be more automated and clearer, and we can probably containerize things a bit more or automate the nginx portion. I will talk with @ggVGc next week and see how he'd like to move forward with it and perhaps we can work together for a clean solution for rolling out a local dev environment.

[ggVGc]

I added a discussion task relating to this: https://app.asana.com/1/118156281362765/project/1208169288995692/task/1211922997205054

In essence, I think we should improve things, but I think the approach taken in this PR is wrong and should not be pursued further or merged. However, we can maybe keep it open until we move further on other improvements, since this approach is still useful in some way for some people.