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HalAI is an Artificial Intelligence Chat application that fully supports Speech Synthesis.

HalAI user instructions may be given as text or speech.

HalAI Artificial Intelligence response options include text and speech.

HalAI voice options are configurable.

HalAI text instructions and responses also support HTML and Markdown.

This is a large and complex undertaking. Installation and configuration topics include Ubuntu 20.04, Google Domains, DNS, SSH, Firewall, Nginx, Nginx http and https Server Blocks, SSL certificates, Certificate Authority Authorization, TLS V1.3, Node, MongoDB, Java, Application deployment, and Cron jobs.

This is a discussion about configuring DMARC for Google Workspace

Sending emails with Mailgun is straightforward.

This ESLint discussion is an addition to Visual Studio Code

There are also notes regarding debugging Express, Mocha and Webpack and Fixing ESLint errors.

Let's discuss deploying TaskMuncher, a React and Node application, to a Multi-Container Docker Environment at AWS using Dockerhub and Travis CI

Let's discuss configuring AWS for a Multi-Container Docker Application.

AWS needs a .dockercfg file to allow AWS to authenticate with a Dockerhub private repository.

As I am using a private repository at Dockerhub, a .dockercfg file must be uploaded to a S3 bucket at AWS.

To create a .dockercfg file, please see Create TaskMuncher Docker .dockercfg for AWS

AWS requires file Dockerrun.aws.json to enable the deployment of multiple Docker containers.

Dockerfiles are used to build Docker images. A Dockerfile is a text document that contains all the commands a user could call on the command line to assemble an image.

Travis-CI is used to build and deploy the application to production at AWS.

Let's discuss Docker basics

Makefiles are used to build and run Docker images in Docker containers.

Build Docker images and run in Docker containers for a Development Environment.

The multitude of requirements create the requirement there be many .env files. This requirement creates some challenges.

At the completion of the project it is desirable to delete any and all resources that were used for this project.