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IUGA Distributed Application Deployment

Client and server code for deploying applications to servers via LAN Bittorrent.

The use case that this project serves is to deploy very large files (40GB) from one host, to approximately 80 hosts.

This project leverages bittorrent to maximize throughput and minimize load on the initial seed host.

Server

The server hosts two endpoints:

GET /

Displays a list of each registered host, as well as all of the files they are downloading and their progress on the file.

POST /clientStatus

Endpoint for clients to post their progress to.

Client

The client polls, at a regular interval, the following URL: http://www.iuga.info/gamenight/config.php

This URL was is hardcoded to return JSON structured like so:

{
  "torrentUrl": "http://url/with/list/of/torrents.json",
  "saveDir": "D:\\Example\\Directory\\To\\Save\\To",
  "refreshInterval": 1500,
  "statusUrl": "http://url/to/post/status/to"
}

torrentUrl: The URL for the client to poll to get a list of torrents.
saveDir: The directory where files are saved to.
refreshInterval: How often to poll for new torrents.
statusUrl: The URL for the client to post its progress to.

Extensibility

This project currently has some hardcoded URLs due to the one-off nature of it. To use this in a different context, there are several files that would need updating.

TODO Document changes needed.