Le logiciel PIA / The PIA Software

Le logiciel PIA est un outil distribué librement par la CNIL afin de faciliter la réalisation d’analyses d’impact sur la protection des données prévues par le RGPD. PIA-BACK est développé avec le framework RubyOnRails mettant à disposition une API RESTful à destination des outils PIA et PIA-APP.

The PIA software is a free tool published by the CNIL which aims to help data controllers build and demonstrate compliance to the GDPR. PIA-BACK is developped with RubyOnRails providing a RESTful API for the PIA and PIA-APP applications.

Installation

You can follow this runbook for a full installation of pia (back-end) and pia (front-end) applications on a ubuntu 17.10 server.

Requirements

• pia (front-end) application and/or pia (stand-alone) application
• Ruby 2.6.5
• Rails 6.0.2
• PostgreSQL 12.0+

System requirements

• CPU : i5
• Ram: 4Go
• Disk Space : 20Go
• OS : preferably Linux but other OS works as well

PostgreSQL installation

Basic installation on Debian you can use the following documentation: wiki.debian.org/PostgreSql on Ubuntu you can use: help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL

Also, you need to create a new user with password.

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/LINCnil/pia-back.git

Go to the folder pia-back

cd pia-back

Create and fill the file database.yml

cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml

Fill the fields username and password for each environment with the PostgreSQL username and password created in the step "PostgreSQL installation".

Install all dependencies

bundle install

Create and fill the file application.yml

cp config/application.example.yml config/application.yml

Generate the SECRET_KEY_BASE with: bin/rake secret and paste the secret key in the file.

Create database

bin/rake db:create

Create tables

bin/rake db:migrate

Run the application

• bin/rails s your server will be accessible with the URL localhost:3000

• You can specify the option -b to bind to a public IP address or domain name and -p to use a different port.

  For example: bin/rails s -b 123.456.789.101 -p 8080 your server will be accessible with the URL 123.456.789.101:8080

• Then, in the pia (front-end) application, use this URL to enable the server mode.

• Fill the field in "Tools" > "Settings"

Run the application in production mode

1. Fill the production section in the database.ymlfile.
2. Create the database: RAILS_ENV=production bin/rake db:create
3. Create the tables: RAILS_ENV=production bin/rake db:migrate
4. Run the server: RAILS_ENV=production bin/rails s

How to update to the latest version

Go to the folder pia-back : cd pia-back

Update the repository : git pull

Update the dependencies : bundle install

Update the database : RAILS_ENV=production bin/rake db:migrate

Run the test

bin/rake

Contributions

• Docker set-up (Kosmas Schütz): a Docker-Compose configuration for production purpose. Everything is automated from creating containers to setting up the database.
• Installation runbook (ylachgar): runbook to install the pia tool server version on a ubuntu 17.10 server.