Sebastian Grodzicki sgrodzicki

Notes

This guide uses Kamal 1.8.1

Motivation

Kamal was designed with 1 service = 1 droplet/VPS in mind.
But I'm cheap and I want to be able to deploy multiple demo/poc apps apps on my $20/month dedicated server.
What the hell, I'll even host my private container registry on it.

Debian 8 DO Locale Issues Fix

Problem

"Locale problems" in both the 32-bit & 64-bit versions of Debian 8 droplets

Create a new Debian 8 droplet and login as root:

Sharing Environment Variables Between your Ubuntu user, and Apache.

Many blogs suggest putting your variables in /etc/environment and including that file in /etc/apache2/envvars, but that solution did not work for me. After hours of searching and testing, this is what I came up with. I figured others may find it useful.

Environment: Ubuntu 16.04, Apache 2.4

Step 1

Append the following to your site's .gitignore file so that you don't accidentally commit your environment variables.

Apache

How to make your website to maintenance mode

Put maintenance.html into your root directory
Open .htaccess file

Insert this block in the first line of the file

 ErrorDocument 503 /maintenance.html
 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

	name: Flightcontrol Webhook Deployment
	env:
	DEPLOYMENT_URL: ""
	on: workflow_dispatch

	jobs:
	backend-deploy:
	runs-on: ubuntu-latest
	timeout-minutes: 25
	steps:

	#!/bin/sh

	# Substitute your IPs as required
	for var in 200 201 202 203
	do
	curl -X POST -u admin:gocoax --max-time 10 http://192.168.1.$var/ms/1/0xb00
	done

	#!/usr/bin/env php
	<?php

	if (count($argv) < 3) {
	echo <<<USAGE
	Usage: genshadow.php salt password

	USAGE;
	exit(0);
	}

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# INSTALL
	# -------
	# 1.) Create directory structure
	# <base_dir>
	# <base_dir>\bin
	# <base_dir>\etc
	# <base_dir>\log
	# <base_dir>\rrd

	after "deploy:restart", "deploy:cleanup"
	after "deploy:setup", "symfony:setup:parameters_init"

	# Clear the cache before the cache:warmup task is run. The cache directory is
	# shared, that way setting ACL's only happens once and we avoid the use of
	# sudo
	before 'deploy:finalize_update', 'symfony:cache:remove'

	namespace :symfony do
	namespace :cache do

	# This custom task for deploying a Symfony 2 application is set to run after deploy:setup
	# is executed. It interactively ask a user for database details to create a parameters.ini
	# thus avoiding having to manually on to the server and create it
	#
	# Helper function from http://stackoverflow.com/a/1662001/1041885
	#
	# Interactive parameter.ini generation adapted from http://adurieux.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/using-capistrano.html

	# ...
	# ... Your deployment settings/tasks