countable-web/dotfiles

Linux Utilities for Countable Web Productions - Bootstrap servers and workstations, manage dev environment databases, and automate rote tasks

dotfiles

Linux utilities for Countable Web Productions: Bootstrap servers and workstations, manage dev environment databases, and automate rote tasks.

Dotfiles are meant to go in the home directory of Linux/Unix machines you use. There is a guide on this pattern here from GitHub.

Basic Installation (Generic Linux Workstation)

Install curl, then run the automated installer.

sudo apt-get install curl
cd
sh -c "$(curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/countable-web/dotfiles/master/install.sh)"

Updating

To update in the future you can do:

cd $HOME/dotfiles
git pull origin master
zsh

What Does Dotfiles Do?

This will do the following to your machine:

• Change your default shell to zsh.
• Install the zgen package manager for zsh, which lets you add shell utilities.
• Sets up much better autocompletion than the default.
• Create a local ssh key for you machine.
• Prevent sudo asking your password.
• Allow GIT to store your credentials in memory temporarily, to avoid needing to enter passwords multiple times per session.
• Installs several convenient scripts, see below.

Jenkins Slave Node Installation

To do set up a server as a jenkins slave on a remote node, do this instead where node-direct.countable.ca is the new node's DNS.

./dotfiles/deploy/setup-jenkins-slave

Extra Steps

To install docker.

./dotfiles/deploy/setup-docker

Scripts

These dotfiles come bundled with several useful scripts.

dump-pg

Dumps a postgres database (within docker-compose as nearly all our projects use), to ./db.sql. warning : Don't commit this sql file into GIT!

restore-pg [sql file]

Restores an sql file into a dockerized postgres databse (as nearly all our projects use)

dump-mongo

Same as above, but for mongo

restore-mongo

Same as above but for mongo

restore-db

If you have awscli set up, this will download the latest production database for your project and try to install it locally.

cryptsend

Sends a file to an encrypted cloud link you can download or share.

gsync

Git sync - does an add, commit, pull, push from your repo folder. warning : Run git status first, and ensure you're not adding any files you don't want. Add those to your .gitignore file or delete them before running gsync

perm

warning : This script is recursive, so don't run it in the root directory or anywhere else ridiculous. Use it in your project folders only.

On any shared machine, Countable uses open group permissions for the "dev" group, which all users belong to. The setup script should create this group and add you to it. Once done, there's a catchall command for setting permissions so anyone in our group has full access. This is nearly always what we want, in order to be both simple and relatively secure.

cd <directory with permission issue>
perm

Docker Aliases

• d is aliased to docker-compose
• dx is aliased to docker-compose exec and includes some terminal width fixes.
• dl is allaseed to docker-compose logs -f --tail=1000, ie dl web to start tailing web logs.

Tweaks

Terminator Right Click to Paste

This is a suggested tweak for the terminal program. Probably only Clark cares about it.

sudo vi /usr/share/terminator/terminatorlib/terminal.py

search for on_buttonpress, and switch mouse indices

Easily find countable.ca web addresses.

You may want to add - /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf:append domain-name " countable.ca";