draffensperger/trackmiles-chef

Trackmiles Setup Instructions

These Chef cookbooks allow configuring a Dokku light weight PaaS for my personal projects hosted at subdomains of davidraff.com.

Set up Chef Locally

Install Chef on your developer machine

    curl -L "https://www.getchef.com/chef/install.sh" | sudo bash

Install necessary gems

    bundle install  --binstubs

Also install berkshelf locally so that Chef solo knows to install Berks files

    gem install berkshelf

Install the Berkshelf cookbooks locally

    bin/berks install

Edit encrypted data bags

If you adapt these cookbooks for your own project, you will need to modify the encrypted data bags, e.g.:

    EDITOR=leafpad bin/knife solo data bag edit ssh-access core-server

Provision Virtual Machine

I use a Digital Ocean Droplet with Ubuntu 14.04.

Configure your SSH to reuse connections

Knife solo will run faster if it can re-use SSH connections to transfer files and execute code. Modify your ~/.ssh/config file by adding these lines to re-use SSH connections:

    Host *
        ControlMaster auto
        ControlPath ~/.ssh/control:%h:%p:%r

Run Chef on the remote machine

To re-use the connections, open an SSH connectoin in one terminal tab to the host, e.g. if the server address was ssh.davidraff.com,

    ssh root@ssh.davidraff.com

Then run knife solo to bootstrap the node:

    bin/knife solo bootstrap root@ssh.davidraff.com nodes/dokku-davidraff.json

If you need to re-run the cookbook, use the deploy user and the cook command:

    bin/knife solo cook deploy@ssh.davidraff.com nodes/dokku-davidraff.json

To run it with debug output you can add -V -l debug to the end of the command.

Deploy the code with git

Fetch the code for trackmiles

    git clone https://github.com/draffensperger/miletracker.git

Then in the miletracker folder, add git remote repositories

    git remote add stage dokku@ssh.davidraff.com:stagetrackmiles
    git push stage master

Then migrate the database changes

    ssh deploy@ssh.davidraff.com "dokku run stagetrackmiles rake db:migrate"

Or, restore from a backup database:

    pg_restore -v -c -x -O -h localhost -U stagetrackmiles -d stagetrackmiles db.dump

Visit the site

The staging site should now be live at https://stagetrackmiles.davidraff.com

License

Apache 2.0

draffensperger / trackmiles-chef