Manual install of cobudget-api

Introduction

The server will be set up to use blue/green deployments. This will done by making two directories, incidentally named blue and green and set a symbolic link current that points to the current release in production.

A new release can then be prepared in the directory not currently in use and the change can happen almost instantanously.

Rollback to the previous version can happen equally fast (if there are no incompatible database changes).

First time install

Create directories, adjust permissions and clone the cobudget-api github repo.

cd /opt
sudo mkdir cobudget-api
sudo chown ubuntu cobudget-api
cd cobudget-api
mkdir green
git clone https://github.com/cobudget/cobudget-api.git blue
ln -s /opt/cobudget-api/blue current

Get the env and start files and copy to the installed dir

cd
git clone https://github.com/greaterthan/aws-deploy.git
cp aws-deploy/env aws-deploy/start /opt/cobudget-api/current

git clone https://github.com/greaterthan/aws-deploy.git

Now edit the env and env-vars file. The database variable could be

DATABASE_URL="postgres://cobudget:<password>@cobudget-prod.cird90svlmvv.us-west-2.rds.amazonaws.com:5432/cobudget_prod"

Install missing Postgresql dev files and install all packages

sudo apt-get install postgresql-common libpq-dev
/usr/local/lib/ruby-2.4.0/bin/bundle install

Brief notes on new deployment

• Remove the unused blue of green dir

• Clone the api repo into the unused blue or green dir

• Copy env , env-vars , start and config/database.yml to the new dir

If there's a DB update, dumb the DB before the update, do the update and dump it again after. Just to be sure.

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/lib/ruby-2.4.0/bin
. ./env
pg_dump -h cobudget-prod.cird90svlmvv.us-west-2.rds.amazonaws.com -U cobudget -d cobudget_prod >cobudget-prod-<yymmdd>-before-update
bundle exec rake db:migrate
pg_dump -h cobudget-prod.cird90svlmvv.us-west-2.rds.amazonaws.com -U cobudget -d cobudget_prod >cobudget-prod-<yymmdd>-after-update

And finally, change the symlink and restart the service

rm current; ln -s /opt/cobudget-api/blue/ current
sudo systemctl restart cobudget-api

Running with systemd

Copy the systemd config files

sudo cp aws-deploy/cobudget-* /etc/systemd/system

Get systemd to read the file, start the server and enable for automatic start at boot

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start cobudget-api
sudo systemctl start cobudget-dj
sudo systemctl start cobudget-digestemail.timer
sudo systemctl enable cobudget-api
sudo systemctl enable cobudget-dj
sudo systemctl enable cobudget-digestemail.timer

You can check if the server has started with

sudo systemctl status cobudget-api.service
sudo systemctl status cobudget-dj.service
sudo systemctl status cobudget-digestemail.timer