Remote Databases¶

AWS S3¶

Pre-requisites
- Obtain an AWS account for AICS. Please contact the IT team or the code owner.
- Generate an aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key in your AWS account.
Step-by-step Guide
- Download and install the AWS CLI
- Configure AWS CLI by running aws configure, then enter your credentials as prompted.
- Ensure that Boto3, the AWS SDK for Python is installed and included in the requirements section of setup.py.

Firebase Firestore¶

Step-by-step Guide
- For dev database:
  - Create a Firebase project in test mode with your google account, select firebase_admin as the SDK. Firebase Firestore tutorial
  - Generate a new private key by navigating to “Project settings”>”Service account” in the project’s dashboard.
- For staging database:
  - Obtain credentials:
    - Reach out to the code owner for the necessary credentials.
  - Configure the environment variables:
    - Create a .env file in the root directory.
    - Populate the .env file with the following variables:
    FIREBASE_TOKEN=KEY_JSON_FILE["private_key"] FIREBASE_EMAIL=KEY_JSON_FILE["client_email"]
    note: KEY_JSON_FILE is the content of the private key JSON file generated in the staging Firebase.