This is an overview how I replicated the ICGEM website locally

The **motivation** is to test changes without the necessity to push them to the test-server. Here I can test updates for the website. And implement a relational metadatabase as a prototype. 

**Infrastructure**. consists of 3 Docker containers:
  * WSGI container with the Cherypy code
  * nginx container with static files
  * mongodb container that replicates a test db. see tip#2 about configuration

**Networking**:
  * dbs connects wsgi and mongodb containers
  * www connects wsgi and nginx containers

**Branching**: 
 the configuration files for infrastructure are not tracked by git (added to the .git/exclude). commits to other files can be merged, cherry-picked, rebased to feature branches. 

Content of git exclude:

 information specific to my device configuration: VScode on MacOS
  * Unordered List Item.code-workspace
  * Unordered List Item.DS_Store
 configuration files
  * Unordered List Itemdb_dev.env      #uri, password, username for test database
  * Unordered List Itemdev.yaml        #DOCKER COMPOSE
  * Unordered List Iteminit-mongo.js   #creating users for the mongodb