now is a great way to quickly deploy Node.js applications. Unfortunately, now is a read-only file system, so you must either run your app in memory or set an external CouchDB URL.
Add this script to your package.json and you are good to go:
"now-start": "hoodie --inMemory",
Alternatively, you can also set environment variables.
If you set hoodie_inMemory=true
it will have the same effect as the "now-start"
script above. To set a CouchDB URL, set hoodie_dbUrl=https://admin:[email protected]
$ docker run -d --name my-couchdb \
-v /data/couchdb:/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb \
klaemo/couchdb:1.6.1
$ # create a admin user with the password `secret`
$ # of course you can use you own username/password
$ docker run -it --rm \
--link my-couchdb:couchdb \
yxdhde/alpine-curl-git curl -X PUT \
couchdb:5984/_config/admins/admin -d '"secret"'
$ # login with the admin user
$ docker run -it --rm \
--link my-couchdb:couchdb \
yxdhde/alpine-curl-git curl -X POST \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
couchdb:5984/_session -d 'name=admin&password=secret'
$ docker build -t hoodie-app-tracker .
$ docker run -d -p 8080:8080 \
--name my-app \
--link my-couchdb:couchdb \
hoodie-app-tracker
$ docker run -d -p 8080:8080 \
--name my-app \
--link my-couchdb:couchdb \
-e hoodie_dbUrl=http://admin:secret@couchdb:5984/ \
hoodiehq/hoodie-app-tracker
$ docker run -d --name hub-webhook \
-e VIRTUAL_HOST=webhook-deploy.my-domain.com \
-e DEFAULT_PARAMS='--restart=always -p 8080:8080 --link my-couchdb:couchdb' \
-e DEFAULT_TOKEN=my-webhook-token \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
christophwitzko/docker-hub-webhook
Set up a webhook on Docker Hub with the URL http://deploy-webhook.my-domain.com/my-webhook-token
.
This example is deployed at tracker.hood.ie.
The following two docker commands start a Nginx reverse proxy with automatic certificate creation and renewal.
$ docker run -d -p 80:80 -p 443:443 \
--name nginx-proxy \
-v /data/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:ro \
-v /etc/nginx/vhost.d \
-v /usr/share/nginx/html \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro \
jwilder/nginx-proxy
$ docker run -d --name letsencrypt-companion \
--volumes-from nginx-proxy \
-v /data/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:rw \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion
This step is equivalent to Start CouchDB.
This starts the webhook server. If it receives a webhook it pulls the updated image and restarts the container. More info here.
$ docker run -d --name hub-webhook \
-e VIRTUAL_HOST=webhook-deploy.hood.ie \
-e LETSENCRYPT_HOST=webhook-deploy.hood.ie \
-e [email protected] \
-e DEFAULT_PARAMS='--restart=always -e hoodie_dbUrl=http://admin:secret@couchdb:5984/ -e VIRTUAL_HOST=tracker.hood.ie -e LETSENCRYPT_HOST=tracker.hood.ie -e [email protected] --link my-couchdb:couchdb' \
-e DEFAULT_TOKEN=my-secret-token \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
christophwitzko/docker-hub-webhook
Complete these steps first (if you have not already:)
- Install the Cloud Foundry command line interface.
- Follow the instructions at the above link to connect to Bluemix.
- Follow the instructions at the above link to log in to Bluemix.
Create a Cloudant service within Bluemix if one has not already been created:
$ cf create-service cloudantNoSQLDB Lite hoodie-app-tracker-cloudant-service
Use the Standard plan for production deployments.
In order to connect your hoodie app to the provisioned CouchDB.
To deploy to Bluemix, simply:
$ cf push
We wouldn't normally need a Procfile
for a simple application like this as without it Bluemix will automatically create one for you. However, for this application we need it to populate the value for the hoodie_dbUrl
environment variable. The .cfignore
file is another thing you can sometimes get away without including. However there are two big reason to include it here. First, you’d be deploying several files that should really just stay in your local development environment. Second, and probably the biggest reason, is that Bluemix won’t install your npm modules and instead will just ship whatever happens to be in the node_modules
directory in your local development environment. Lastly, the manifest.yml
file is a requirement to be able to include the easy "Deploy to Bluemix" button here on this page.
Without the manifest file we’d have to add two steps to the manual Bluemix deployment steps: