Translator_FullStack_GCP

Translation Tool from English To Spanish and Spanish to English

• Anh Ho

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Translator_FullStack_GCP is a robust translation tool equipped with a sleek web interface, built using the Flask web framework. Seamlessly translating between English and Spanish, as well as Spanish to English, this application leverages the power of Google Cloud Datastore library for efficient data storage and retrieval. Powered by Gunicorn, a Python WSGI HTTP server, it ensures smooth and reliable connectivity between web servers like nginx and the application itself. Enhance your multilingual communication effortlessly with Translator_FullStack_GCP.

**The main goal of this project is to build the entire application on Google Cloud Platform ** All the tools I have used for this project including:

Python with Flask: Appropriate for web application development.

Merriam-Webster API: Suitable for integrating a translation tool and dictionary functionality into my application.

Docker containers: A standard choice for packaging and deploying applications, including images and dependencies.

Google Datastore: A NoSQL database service provided by Google Cloud, often used for storing and retrieving structured data in applications.

Google Cloud Deployment: Refers to the process of deploying your application on Google Cloud, ensuring scalability, reliability, and accessibility.

Deployed URL: https://final-zd23viltva-wl.a.run.app/

**** How to set up the project from a scratch ****

Create the service account:

gcloud iam service-accounts create finalTranslation

Add the Cloud Datastore User role to the service account:

gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding ${GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT}
--member serviceAccount:finalTranslation@${GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT}.iam.gserviceaccount.com
--role roles/datastore.user

how to set up API key into the cloud and avoid hard-code: in translate.py

def init(self): self.api_key = os.environ.get("API_KEY")

RUN LOCALLY: How to run the project locally

python3 -m venv env

source env/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

export API_KEY="877a0bd4-cb72-4741-8265-41e318755512"

python app.py

DOCKER: build a docker image:

create an image: docker build -t translation_img .

run docker with the API key for testing: docker run --env API_KEY=877a0bd4-cb72-4741-8265-41e318755512 -p 8000:8000 --env PORT=8000 --rm translation_img

Build the docker container using Cloud Build and then push it to the gcr.io registry to host it

gcloud builds submit --timeout=900 --tag gcr.io/${GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT}/translation_img

DEPLOY the project using GCP

gcloud run deploy final --image gcr.io/${GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT}/translation_img --set-env-vars API_KEY=877a0bd4-cb72-4741-8265-41e318755512 --service-account finalTranslation@${GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT}.iam.gserviceaccount.com

check a list of the existing services deployed in your project

gcloud run services list

destroy the deployment

To destroy or delete a deployment in Google Cloud Run, you can use the gcloud run services delete final