I'm checking out my options on deploying meteor apps.
I already saw the problems of deploying meteor apps built on my mac, to remote Ubuntu server and other versioning issues, i believe more to come.
meteor-up looks like a good solution, but can it be used alongside with demeteorizer
to handle dependency management?
Would that have any advantage over packaging with demeteorizing, and deploying with some othe/custom script?
You don't have to use demeteorizer, if you're using mup. You can configure npm binary dependencies in the config.
Personally I use mup in production, for over 10 different apps, and it even handles multi-node deploys nicely.
I recommend using something like chef to setup your environments, and then mup for meteor/node/mongo/phantom.
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I'm wondering any possible to deploy nuxt.js with MongoDB on cpanel hosting, i have a shared hosting bought from Hostgator. Really need help from this, thx.
my nuxt.config.js
For Nuxt, it depends on your build target and app mode. Are you using SPA or universal?
If you are using SPA, this can be packaged using nuxt build. This output can then be hosted the cpanel as a normal static site using something like Apache.
If you are using universal mode, you will have to ensure you are generating a static site using target:'static'. Once you've configured that in your nuxt.config.js, you'll be able to run nuxt generate and upload the built files to your cpanel.
Please take a look at the Nuxt page for static generation.
That said, I'd wholly recommend you don't use cpane or hostgator. Such hosting doesn't scale and relies on technology like Apache that is resource heavy and slow.
I'd suggest you deploy your Nuxt site to Vercel by following this tutorial here
Vercel is free for non-commercial use and scales infinitely based on your usage. It's incredibly fast and optimised for these types of sites. Deployment is a breeze.
You won't be able to deploy the MongoDB instance on the cpanel unless you have VPS access, or the cpanel has a pre-configured option.
I recommend you use MongoDB Atlas to easily provision, configure and manage your MongoDB instance.
When combined with Vercel, this should give you an incredibly easy and also performant deployment of your application.
I'm a Ruby developer, but I like Scala very much as well.
For Rails framework we have awesome tools that supports deployments like Capistrano automation tool and Puma/Unicorn servers. With simple cookbooks using Chef or Ansible I can easily setup my VPS and deploy Rails application there.
How does automatic deployment look like in Play framework? What is minimal required stack for developing and deploying Play applications? Are there any tools for automatic deployment? What are recommended application servers?
All you need to run a Play app is a JVM. Play is container-less. So deploying your Play app in production is as simple as running a script that invokes a fat jar with all the other required jars in the classpath.
$play dist should generate a zip file that contains everything you need to run the app.
You can use Ansbile to automate.
http://code.hootsuite.com/automating-our-scala-deploys-with-ansible-case-study/
http://www.ansible.com/press-release/ansibleworks-typesafe
To deploy Play Framework apps in AWS (Amazon) ec2 using Ansible playbook
As well as Chef.
https://github.com/gildegoma/chef-typesafe-stack
If you are happy to run on AWS, Boxfuse comes with native Play 2 support.
You can now simply execute boxfuse run my-play-app-1.0.zip -env=prod and this will automatically:
create a minimal AMI tailor-made for your Play 2 app
create an elastic IP
create a security group with the correct permissions
launch an instance of your app
All future updates are performed as blue/green deployments with zero downtime.
This also works with Elastic Load Balancers and Auto-Scaling Groups and the Boxfuse free tier is designed to fit the AWS free tier.
You can read more about it here: https://boxfuse.com/blog/playframework-aws
Disclaimer: I'm the founder and CEO of Boxfuse
Over the last few months I've become familiar with the AWS OpsWorks deployment process as it pertain to Node.js - deployment for Go seems to be another animal.
From what I've gathered, this is what I need to compile a successful Go deployment:
Install go on the EC2 box
Pull the private repository from GitHub
Pull in all dependencies
Compile the main package for the box's arch
Start the binary with a couple of flags that I use
Everywhere I have read seems to tout the ease of Go deployments because dependencies are included in the binary, but that seems to imply that you are compiling the application in your development environment and pushing that up to the cloud. This doesn't seem like a process that works well across a development team.
https://github.com/crowdmob/chef-golang-web-server-cookbook
I have been attempting to get the Chef Scripts from CrowdMob working, but to no avail. I continue to get errors that look like this:
[2014-08-01T16:08:22+00:00] WARN: Cookbook 'templates' is empty or entirely chefignored at /opt/aws/opsworks/current/merged-cookbooks/templates
What is the proper way to deal with dependencies during deployment?
Are there any established practices for deploying Go onto AWS with Chef?
Use a continuous integration service like CircleCi, Travis or your own setup Jenkins.
On the Continuous integration service then
Add a github post commit hook .
Test / Build the binary
Create the zip file as artifact
At this point you can create an new version on Elastic Beanstalk using the AWS commandline and the zip file created from this version.
venv/bin/aws elasticbeanstalk create-application-version ...
Then just select which version to deploy from the EB dashboard.
For simple services using Chef is overkill IMHO. Docker offers a simple workflow.
Use the Docker container option and then use elastic beanstalk's command-line client to initialize your environment in the project root directory and then you can simply do a 'git aws.push' from the same place.
With the correctly configured Dockerfile in your project and pushed to eb, the EBS' docker container app will pull the correct image with golang installed, then do a go get on your projects dependencies, and then compile and run your app. It sounds way more complicated but it's actually very easy.
Below is a link to a video walkthrough I did for running a simple golang webapp on EBS. The method for uploading the project does not use git. Instead, I zip it up and upload it, but the git method is recommended (and I do it) for automating deployment.
YouTube: How to run a go web app on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk
I also had some problems to setup a good building process with Elastic Beanstalk and Go.. I don't want to use Docker, and all the people seems to be going on this direction.. so.. you can take a look at this project: https://github.com/battle-arena/heimdall
There you will find a custom setup using the Buildfile and the Procfile.. and I rely on a CI system to build the release package...
Basically I do the following:
Hook the commits to a CI system
On the CI system I run the test and the install.sh if all good
The install.sh will create a build folder and a structure that will be sended to the Elastic Beanstalk with the aws-cli tool
After send to the EB the Buildfile will run the build.sh that will basically extract the compressed package with the proper structure, and run a go get ./... and go build
The Procfile will run the generated binary
I think the result is pretty good, and you can use with any CI tool.
I'm using Fedora and I deploy Symfony projects in my local machine using virtual hosts. How can I deploy my projects in server to public which others can view it through their machines?
Thanx...
You have several way to deploy you symfony project. I will avoid ftp, svn up on prod, etc .. So, here is 2 good ways.
The built-in deploy task
Symfony comes with a built-in depoy task that has been used when symfony 1.4 was released. I think it's less and less used now (because there is better tool).
The simplest way to deploy your website is to use the built-in project:deploy task. It uses SSH and rsync to connect and transfer the files from one computer to another one.
Using capifony, which use Capistrano
Capistrano is an open source tool for running scripts on multiple servers. It’s primary use is for easily deploying applications.
capifony is a deployment recipes collection that works with both symfony and Symfony2 applications.
This way is far better than the previous one because you can automate many script when deploying (like testing your code, start a fresh built lib, upgrade database, share config file). But the most important one (from my POV) is that you can easily rollback a bad deployement. It's damm easy.
I love Heroku but I would prefer to develop in Scala rather than Ruby on Rails.
Does anyone know of any services like Heroku that work with Scala?
UPDATE: Heroku now officially supports Scala - see answers below for links
As of October 3rd 2011, Heroku officially supports Scala, Akka and sbt.
http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/10/3/scala/
Update
Heroku has just announced support for Java.
Update 2
Heroku has just announced support for Scala
Also
Check out Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.
To deploy Java applications using
Elastic Beanstalk, you simply:
Create your application as you
normally would using any editor or IDE
(e.g. Eclipse).
Package your
deployable code into a standard Java
Web Application Archive (WAR file).
Upload your WAR file to Elastic
Beanstalk using the AWS Management
Console, the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse,
the web service APIs, or the Command
Line Tools.
Deploy your application.
Behind the scenes, Elastic Beanstalk
handles the provisioning of a load
balancer and the deployment of your
WAR file to one or more EC2 instances
running the Apache Tomcat application
server.
Within a few minutes you will
be able to access your application at
a customized URL (e.g.
http://myapp.elasticbeanstalk.com/).
Once an application is running,
Elastic Beanstalk provides several
management features such as:
Easily deploy new application versions
to running environments (or rollback
to a previous version).
Access
built-in CloudWatch monitoring metrics
such as average CPU utilization,
request count, and average latency.
Receive e-mail notifications through
Amazon Simple Notification Service
when application health changes or
application servers are added or
removed.
Access Tomcat server log
files without needing to login to the
application servers.
Quickly restart
the application servers on all EC2
instances with a single command.
Another strong contender is Cloud Foundry. One of the nice features of Cloud Foundry is the ability to have a local version of "the cloud" running on your laptop so you can deploy and test offline.
I started working on the exact same thing as what you said a few weeks ago. I use Lift, which is a great framework and has a lot of potential, on top of Linux chroot environment.
I'm done with a demo version, but Linux chroot is not that stable (nor secure), so I'm now switching to FreeBSD jail on Amazon EC2, and hopefully it'll be done soon.
http://lifthub.net/
There are also other Java hosting environment including VMForce mentioned above.
If you are looking for a custom setup which also has the ease of deployment that heroku offers: http://dotcloud.com. They are invite only right now but I was given access in under three days. I am working on a Lift/MongoDB project there and it works well.
Off the top of my head, only VMForce comes to mind, but its not available yet. This will be a Java-oriented service, so that probably means you'll have to spend a wee bit of time figuring out how to package the app.
For more discussion, there was a debate about this in 2008.
I'm not entirely sure if it's really suitable or not, but people have deployed Scala applications to Google App Engine, for example http://mawson.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/first-steps-with-scala-on-google-app-engine/
Actually you can run scala on heroku right now. You don't believe it?
https://github.com/lstoll/heroku-playframework-scala
I'm not sure the tricks lstoll has used are legit but using the
new cedar platform where you can run custom processes and some
ingenious Gemfile hacking he has managed to bootstrap the Java
play platform into a process. Seems to work as he has a live
site running a test page.
Stax cloud service offers preconfigured lift project skeleton. Also, there is a tutorial on how to deploy lift project to appengine.