Deployment/2017
From charlesreid1
Deployment is about getting the infrastructure you need, and getting it all ready/set/go for launching and running lots of services.
Most important deployment page is here: Deployment/New Node Checklist
Deploying
Small scale
You can do this on a small scale, as I've documented in a couple of places:
- Deployment/New Node Checklist (new procedure)
- Droplet (old but still useful procedure)
- Geodroplet (old but still useful procedure)
Big scale
if you deploy on a big scale, you can't rely on things like hard-coded IP addresses, so you use a load balancer that takes care of things on the backend. Then you just point all requests for your app or your service to the (backend) domain that handles the requests without busting a sweat.
Deployment tooling
Tooling:
- If you are going from bare metal to basic functional systems, can use things like Puppet or Chef. Back in the day it was Norton Ghost. Or a classroom filled with laptops that you installed an OS onto by hand.
Basic functional system to running apps and services by using Docker and Docker containers.
- Docker/Dockerhub (docker hub is where you get your containers)
- Docker/Basics (this is how you run your containers)
- Docker/Boats (boats are the groups of containers that I assemble for different purposes)