xyk2 / thumbor-configuration-scripts

Setup scripts, installation scripts, and config files for thumbor running on GCE.

Thumbor setup and configuration files

• Google Cloud Compute managed instances set up behind a load balancer behind CDN
• Individual instances have multiple thumbor processes balanced with nginx
• Make sure to restart thumbor on configuration changes when testing locally

Todo

• Set up terraform and/or packer to provision infrastructure and VMs
• Automatic deployment and rolling update from master branch

Special configurations in /etc/thumbor.config

• Set up detectors

DETECTORS = [
    'thumbor.detectors.face_detector',
    'thumbor.detectors.feature_detector',
]

• Whitelist allowed domains and buckets
• Set up security keys
• Enable and set max-age headers for CDN caching
• Enable respect orientation EXIF RESPECT_ORIENTATION = True for mobile images

Deployment

• Upload to gs://startup-scripts-and-packages bucket
• Rolling restart application servers, startup script will automatically grab new configuration from bucket