Installation/Vagrant puppet capistrano

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WarningWarning:

The following instructions are maintained by community contributors and describe the installation inside an environment not supported by the diaspora* team.

Due to the nature of these installations, diaspora* might not work, have some limitations, or encounter unexpected issues. The diaspora* team might not be able to help you with troubleshooting your installation. Proceed at your own risk.

Please check our official installation guides for information on how to install diaspora* inside a supported environment.

Before you get started

Official github repository of the project

You must to have installed on your computer Vagrant 1.7 or greater and Capistrano 3.1 or greater (to install Capistrano follow instructions below.)

Overview - What is diaspora*-replica?

The aim of this project is to provide a way to automate the provision and the deploy of a diaspora* POD through tools like Vagrant 2, Puppet and Capistrano 3

  • If you are a developer you can use these tools to setup a development environment
  • If you are a POD maintainer you can use these tools to automatically provision and configure machines (on a bare-metal server or cloud providers) and deploy diaspora* on it

Deploy diaspora* on local environment

If you want to try diaspora* without messing up your computer by installing and configuring extra packages, you can set up a virtual machine that is executed by Vagrant and then automatically configured by Puppet. Now that you have a fully configured virtual machine ready to host a diaspora application, will be very easy to deploy it with Capistrano.

Configure FQDNs in your system

Vagrantfile, Puppet and Capistrano are already configured to handle two environments: development and production. If you want to try them you have to update /etc/hosts file, adding to it the FQDNs for the local diaspora* installation.

Put these entries in your /etc/hosts

192.168.11.2    development.diaspora.local
192.168.11.4    production.diaspora.local

Initialize project

git clone https://github.com/joebew42/diaspora-replica.git
cd diaspora-replica
git submodule update --init

Install vagrant plugins

vagrant plugin install vagrant-puppet-install

Set up the virtual machine with Vagrant/Puppet

vagrant up production

Wait until the virtual machine is automatically setted up with puppet and is up and running.

Install Capistrano with bundle (if you haven't)

If you have not installed Capistrano on your computer, you can easily run bundle to install it.

cd capistrano/ && bundle

Deploy diaspora* with Capistrano

When the virtual machine is up and running, then you can deploy diaspora* on it using Capistrano

cd capistrano
cap production deploy

When executed the first time, this step can take several minutes (about 20, based on your internet connection), because the diaspora git repository must be cloned and the bundler will install ruby gems. Once capistrano completed the deploy task, you can start diaspora through eye

cap production diaspora:eye:start

Wait until unicorn workers are ready (about 30/40 seconds) and then your diaspora* installation will be up and running at http://production.diaspora.local

Start, stop, restart and info

You can use Capistrano tasks to start, stop, restart or get information about diaspora*

cap production diaspora:eye:start
cap production diaspora:eye:stop
cap production diaspora:eye:restart
cap production diaspora:eye:info

Deploy other branches

If you want to deploy a different branch of diaspora* (ex. develop instead of master) you have to update puppet/manifest/site.pp by specifying correct rvm and ruby version:

node 'production.diaspora.local' {
  class { 'diaspora':
    hostname            => $fqdn,
    environment         => 'production',
    rvm_version         => '1.26.3',
    ruby_version        => '2.1.5',
    app_directory       => '/home/diaspora',
    user                => 'diaspora',
    group               => 'diaspora',
    db_provider         => 'mysql',
    db_host             => 'localhost',
    db_port             => '3306',
    db_name             => 'diaspora_production',
    db_username         => 'diaspora',
    db_password         => 'diaspora',
    db_root_password    => 'diaspora_root',
    unicorn_worker      => 4,
    sidekiq_concurrency => 5,
    sidekiq_retry       => 10,
    sidekiq_namespace   => 'diaspora'
  }
}

Set up the the repo_url and/or the branch that we want to deploy by editing capistrano/config/deploy/production.rb

...
set :repo_url, 'https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git'
set :branch, 'develop'
...

Execute the provision of the machine and the deploy of diaspora*

vagrant up production
cd capistrano/
cap production deploy
cap production diaspora:eye:start

Check out your diaspora* installation at http://production.diaspora.local

Deploy diaspora* on production environment

If you want to use these tools to deploy a production environment (e.g. stage or production), you have to configure some properties inside Vagrantfile, puppet/manifests/site.pp, capistrano/config/deploy/production.rb and of course, SSL certs and private/public keys for the server.

Vagrantfile

You have to configure your Vagrantfile based on the virtual machine provider you are going to use (e.g. Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, and other). Please see the Vagrant Provider Documentation for detailed instructions. If you are not going to use vagrant you can skip this section and apply puppet manually, or configure a puppet master/agent environment. See the Puppet documentation for more informations.

puppets/manifests/site.pp

node 'myproduction.domain.com' {
  class { 'diaspora':
    hostname            => $fqdn,
    environment         => 'production',
    rvm_version         => '1.26.3',
    ruby_version        => '2.1.5',
    app_directory       => '/home/diaspora',
    user                => 'diaspora',
    group               => 'diaspora',
    db_provider         => 'mysql',
    db_host             => 'localhost',
    db_port             => '3306',
    db_name             => 'diaspora_production',
    db_username         => 'diaspora',
    db_password         => 'diaspora',
    db_root_password    => 'diaspora_root',
    unicorn_worker      => 4,
    sidekiq_concurrency => 5,
    sidekiq_retry       => 10,
    sidekiq_namespace   => 'diaspora'
  }
}

Of course, you have to change *myproduction.domain.com* with your real Fully Qualified Domain Name, and adjust settings, if needed.

Setup the SSL certificate for your server

You have to put the SSL key and certificate in puppet/modules/diaspora/files/certs/. The file names must contain the FQDN followed by .crt and .key. See the examples that already exists.

Setup the public key of the user

Put in puppet/modules/diaspora/files/diaspora.pub the public key of the user that will be granted to execute commands from Capistrano.

Apply Puppet configuration

Now that your Puppet configuration is complete, you have to execute it to your production server. If you use vagrant configured with one of the supported providers it can be done automatically. If you are not able to configure vagrant, you can apply puppet in other ways. But this topic will be not covered here. See the Puppet documentation for this.

capistrano/config/deploy/production.rb

Here you have to configure the FQDN, the git repository URL, the name of the branch and the user of the remote server.

Capistrano public key

In order to allow Capistrano to execute commands on the remote server you need to put in capistrano/ssh_keys the private and the public keys of the user. The public key should be the same of puppet/modules/diaspora/files/diaspora.pub.

Deploy diaspora* with Capistrano

Once you have successfully configured the server, you can deploy and start diaspora*

cd capistrano
cap production deploy diaspora:eye:start

Using PostgreSQL Database

If you want to use PostgreSQL [1] instead of the default MySQL, you can configure it through puppet/manifests/site.pp:

node 'development.diaspora.local' {
  class { 'diaspora':
    hostname         => $fqdn,
    environment      => 'development',
    rvm_version      => '1.26.3',
    ruby_version     => '2.1.5',
    app_directory    => '/home/diaspora',
    user             => 'diaspora',
    group            => 'diaspora',
    db_provider      => 'postgres',
    db_host          => 'localhost',
    db_port          => '5432',
    db_name          => 'diaspora_development',
    db_username      => 'diaspora',
    db_password      => 'diaspora',
    db_root_password => 'diaspora_root'
  }
}

note the db_provider and db_port parameters.

That is present in your capistrano/config/deploy/development.rb

[1] Puppet will install PostgreSQL 9.1

What if I want to deploy the branch master with Postgresql?

Because of "--deployment" flag that is set up by default in capistrano bundler, it is necessary to fork diaspora* in a personal git repository and bundle it with PostgreSQL support:

$ DB=postgres bundle

Add the generated Gemfile.lock under version control. In capistrano/config/deploy/production.rb you have to specify your git repository:

set :repo_url, 'https://github.com/[your_github_username]/diaspora.git'
set :branch, '[your_branch]'

How to set up a Development Environment

You can use these tools to easly set up a fully development environment for diaspora*. The development machine is configured within Vagrantfile with enough RAM (2GB) to run all tests. In this way you can write code using your preferred IDE or editor (vim, emacs, eclipse and so on) directly from your local environment (the host machine), by executing tests within the development virtual machine.

Initialize project

git clone https://github.com/joebew42/diaspora-replica.git
cd diaspora-replica/
git submodule update --init

Install vagrant plugins

vagrant plugin install vagrant-puppet-install

Cloning your git repository in src/ directory

Ensure you have nfs-server installed and running on your host. Vagrantfile is configured to synchronize an host directory (src/) with a guest directory (diaspora_src/). For better I/O performance read the Vagrant Synced Folder Documentation. The first step is to clone your own diaspora* git repository into the local directory src.

cd diaspora-replica/
git clone your_own_diapora_git_repo src

Create a new branch or switch to existing one (eg. master or develop). Lets say we want to switch to the develop branch:

cd src/
git checkout develop
cd ..

Run development virtual machine

vagrant up development

Enabling vagrant user to use rvm (first time set up)

vagrant ssh development
vagrant@development:~$ sudo usermod -aG rvm vagrant && newgrp rvm
vagrant@development:~$ /bin/bash --login

Prepare the Rails application

vagrant@development:~$ cd diaspora_src

Prepare your configuration files diaspora.yml and database.yml, put it into config/ directory.

Configure Rubies and Gemsets

vagrant@development:~$ rvm use 2.2

The line above is just an example, since you have to remember to choose the right rubies accordingly to .ruby-version file

vagrant@development:~$ rvm gemset create diaspora_dev
vagrant@development:~$ rvm gemset use diaspora_dev

Install gems and create databases

vagrant@development:~$ bundle install --with mysql postgresql

If bundle fails consider to update it with gem update bundler

vagrant@development:~$ rake generate:secret_token
vagrant@development:~$ rake db:create
vagrant@development:~$ rake db:migrate

Prepare test environment

vagrant@development:~$ rake db:test:prepare
vagrant@development:~$ rake assets:generate_error_pages

Run all tests

vagrant@development:~$ rspec

How to upgrade diaspora*-replica

Follow these steps in order to upgrade an existing installation of diaspora*. In this example we'll consider the production environment (you can apply the same instructions for staging, development or user defined environment).

cd diaspora-replica/
git pull --rebase origin master
git submodule update

vagrant up production
vagrant provision production --provision-with puppet

cd capistrano/
cap production deploy
cap production diaspora:eye:start

Which Operating Systems are supported?

  • Ubuntu 14.04LTS Server
  • Ubuntu 12.04LTS Server
  • CentOS 6.4

Choosing the OS from Vagrantfile

By default the Vagrantfile is configured to run an Ubuntu 14.04LTS Server box. If you want to switch to Ubuntu 12.04LTS Server or CentOS 6.4, you have to edit the file.

How to contribute this project

This project is under development. There are a lot of things to do. At the moment the Puppet provides support and, has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04LTS Server, Ubuntu 12.04LTS Server and CentOS 6.4. It could be useful if someone can test it over other version of Ubuntu, or better, can provide support for other distributions (e.g. CentOS). The Database section of the Puppet does not consider parameters like hostname and port at the moment. Furthermore there a lot of variables of diaspora.yml that are not covered (e.g. mail server configuration and more).