Getting Elixir / Phoenix running on Digital Ocean with edeliver

up-and-running-with-edeliver-on-do.md

Build Server

• Go to Digital Ocean
• Create new droplet
• London
• Ubuntu
• No apps
• Add SSH keys

Setup Server

• SSH to server as root
• sudo apt-get install git
  • git config --global user.name "Your Name"
  • git config --global user.email "your@email.co.uk"
• wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb && sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install elixir
• mix local.hex
• archive.install https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/releases/download/v1.0.3/phoenix_new-1.0.3.ez
• sudo apt-get install erlang-base-hipe
• sudo apt-get install build-essential
• sudo apt-get install erlang-dev
• chmod -R 777 /opt
• mkdir /git
• chmod -R 777 /git

Setup EDeliver Project

• add edeliver dependency (pointing to master branch on GH for now...): {:edeliver, git: "https://github.com/boldpoker/edeliver.git"}
• change {:phoenix_live_reload, "~> 1.0", only: :dev} to {:phoenix_live_reload, "~> 1.0"}
• add , :edeliver, :phoenix_live_reload to applications list
• mix deps.get
• mix deps.compile
• create .deliver/config file
• populate config file with the following:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

APP="my_awesome_app" # name of your release

BUILD_HOST="server ip / hostname" # host where to build the release
BUILD_USER="root" # local user at build host
BUILD_AT="/git/my_awesome_app/builds" # build directory on build host
RELEASE_DIR="/git/my_awesome_app/builds/rel/my_awesome_app"
RELEASE_VERSION=0.0.1

STAGING_HOSTS="server ip / hostname" # staging / test hosts separated by space
STAGING_USER="git" # local user at staging hosts
TEST_AT="/test/my_awesome_app" # deploy directory on staging hosts. default is DELIVER_TO

PRODUCTION_HOSTS="server ip / hostname" # deploy / production hosts separated by space
PRODUCTION_USER="root" # local user at deploy hosts
DELIVER_TO="/opt/my_awesome_app" # deploy directory on production hosts

Establish Production Config

• copy / paste config from dev.exs / test.exs
• replace first endpoint block with the following:

config :my_awesome_app, MyAwesomeApp.Endpoint,
  http: [port: 4800],
  debug_errors: true,
  server: true,
  code_reloader: false,
  cache_static_lookup: false,
  check_origin: false,
  watchers: []

• be sure to remove / turn off any config settings relating to live reload / code reload

Build On Server

• mix edeliver build release --verbose
• mix edeliver deploy release to production --verbose
• mix edeliver start production --verbose
• double check that everything is running at your-ip:4800