Support to Containers

[vcaldas]

Should we consider a path with containers as well in this repo?

From what I see, the project is designed to run in a standalone machine but having the containers set might really improve developers experience.

To clarify, when adding containers, I do expect to keep the original workflow intact - and not a replacement or incompatible change for the existing systems.

[craigmediaservices]

I've built it out in Docker, but ended up switching to baremetal for production. It ended up being not as clean as I hoped, but that may be due to my lack of skill.

https://github.com/craigmediaservices/pysystemtrade-docker

[vcaldas]

I have something working https://github.com/vcaldas/aptrade/blob/main/compose.yml
But still not happy with the solution.

[isque03]

I've been doing something similar. I've been working on using pysystemtrade with containers in google cloud for a couple months now.
Is your end-goal to run on a local server or on a cloud vm/system?

Getting to close to something that I'm happy with. It's been up and running without errors for about a month now. Still paper-trading till I'm really happy with it, so I currently don't have to deal with the 2FA on the gateway.
My goals were to make it as close as possible to the cost of running a single small cloud vm, easy to update (using terraform), secure (no public ips for ib gateway).

The ib gatway itself runs as a standard vm, while all the pysystemtrade jobs run as google cloud run jobs, started by cloud scheduler.
The gateway and jobs all run in the same VPC which allows the jobs to access the gateway without it requiring a public ip. If you connect to an external hosted mongodb, then you'll need a NAT (or shared VPC) so you can lock down the connection to the db.

The pysystemtrade folders like 'private','data','echos','reports' are all volume mounts into the containers. The actual storage is a cloud bucket.

Some examples here:
https://gist.github.com/isque03/9db07a3eaeaa2ec6ed021388f9a5c585

Also, I'm using the same ib-gateway image you are using, it's been very helpful:
https://github.com/gnzsnz/ib-gateway-docker

Some other things I started working on but are all wip:

• A new console that let's me run some of the "interactive controls" or "interactive diagnostics" from my phone.
• Adding another container for downloading barchart data, pushing it to a bucket and loading it.
• (Minor) Updating text emails to send an html version with monospace font, because I can't read any of the reports in gmail.

[vcaldas]

I have a home server, so I do plan to keep it local - and I do have hyper availability. At least I don't have a good reason to move to cloud hosting . Now, I keep a VM only for PST and there I do virtualize few parts of the system in containers.

And I have to say that our goals seem to be pretty similar. as I already have to maintain a home server, the end goal is to have PST as one more service running, so I can leverage CI/CD, remote access and all the other things.