Add a "production" mode to the Rails app about ecommerce-workshop HOT 4 OPEN

i have submitted a change to make the application closer to production for k8s deployments by adding an external interface - as a cloud advocate myself, having a public visible endpoint adds value for the person trying out the application.

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In order to support this, I have begun rebuilding the app from scratch in Rails 6.0 which was started via #28 because there are a few problems with the way things are currently built now.

Originally, this was forked from the spree repo from a pre-release version of Spree which was destined to become a Rails 6.0 based version so it was kind of doomed from the start. The fact it is even running now is something short of a miracle. This baseline cascaded into the docker setup which was all built upon the older Rails so it is now impossible to upgrade without significant work and changes. That being said, I think it's time to clean the slate and start fresh, so here is what I propose after things quiet down:

• From the base rails app in #28 we re-generate a fresh Spree install
• Apply new CircleCI build pipeline so we can automate the docker container builds and leverage caching for speed
• Extract out the store items into a database seeds file so they can be applied to any environment
• Stick to one version of the app with environment variable feature gates which we could comment out in the docker compose file for easier customization and easier to find tweaks so they serve as code examples
• Build a new helm chart which can be applied to a local or remote k8s/k3s cluster
• Build new terraform files to apply to the popular platforms like Azure/AWS/GCP

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i have submitted a change to make the application closer to production for k8s deployments by adding an external interface - as a cloud advocate myself, having a public visible endpoint adds value for the person trying out the application.

Thank you for submitting that. I did set this up with a storedog.app domain for the Fastly webinar, but I'd like to make that a more semi-permanent thing.

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In chatting with @martinisoft we do think removing rack-mini-profiler is a good idea as we move to a more production model. Making a note here for future reminder.

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