Dynamically adding applications and users

[koritze]

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Hi,
I am trying to run Parse in Openshift environment.

My current architecture:

• Parse-Dashboard container will mount a volume (shared storage) that contains all the Parse-Servers in JSON.
• Parse-Server container - all arguments will be supplied via environment variables - Stateless.
• Mongo - replica set.

I would like to use the same dashboard for multiple parse-servers which represents different applications.
In the current implementation of Parse-dashboard a major limitation exists - a restart is needed for every addition of parse-server.
The obvious solution is to hold the configuration data in a database, but the disadvantage is the binding of the parse-dashboard to the database.

After the change is made it will be easy to add a management console to the Parse-Dashboard server, to allow easy and fast creation of users, applications and assignment of administrators.
For example, adding new application:
Parse-dashboard:Create new application > Parse-dashboard:Generates MASTER_KEY > Openshift:Create parse-server with the MASTER_KEY > Parse-dashboard:Insert the rest of the parameters of the app (serverURL, etc)

I'm opening this issue to start a discussion.

[drew-gross]

Sounds useful, also potentially related #188. A real database might be overkill, and would add a pretty huge dependency to Parse Dashboard. My suggestion would be to add an endpoint to the express app that serves the dashboard that just writes to the config file. I'm open to other ideas though.

[grassland-curing-cfa]

I have been trying to migrate my Parse.com hosted app to the architecture of Heroku + mlab (both with free quota).

I am also interested to have the function of Create a New App on the Dashboard. After the Parse hosted service is shut down end of Jan 2017, I think it'd be very troublesome to create a new Parse app on my current architecture as I am still trying to figure out a best practice to create a new Parse app with Heroku + mlab. My idea is:

1. Create an empty MongoDB instance running on mlab, and get the URI to it;
2. Deploy the Parse-example to Heroku as a Heroku app;
3. Configure the config. variable the Heroku app to point to the MongoDB URI;
4. Add the Heroku app to the configuration file of the Parse-dashboard;
5. Add new classes and rows via the Parse-dashboard.

Please let me know what you think about the steps as above.

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