I’m facing an issue where I want to deploy my dashboard while continuing to access data that’s local to my network, including file paths (pickle files) and a MySQL database.
The deployment options I’ve explored so far, like GitHub, don’t seem to support accessing this local data. I’d really appreciate any suggestions or advice on how to overcome this challenge.
I need to keep the data local due to its sensitive nature.
Thanks in advance!
hi @cjmscorpio
Welcome to the community.
I wasn’t sure about this one, so I asked my colleague who said that it’s not possible, unless the server hosting the Dash app can see the server hosting the files.
Is this something like, the app users are a fairly small trusted group (company employees say), who need access to the app while they are out of office?
The most straightforward way of allowing that securely might be to host the app locally and set up a VPN. When users are are logged into the VPN it is (close to being) as if they are connected to the office network, and they can access local servers.