orchestr8

The purpose of orchestr8 is to watch and deploy apps that are stored as npm packages.

The apps must be binary launchable (package.json: "bin" pointed to a js file), and, once running, must respond to pings on /test to verify that the apps are awake and healthy

If a version responds to enough pings it'll be marked as "stable".

orchestr8 is loaded with a config.yml file that tells it how the things it's going to deploy are going to be deployed.

notes:

this communicates with docker a lot using /var/run/docker.sock, which doesn't work on Windows because Windows doesn't have that file, or, in fact, support UNIX sockets at all. Get out the Mac laptop or use codespaces or something?

Install

Basics

Docker, node (v.20)

Prep

npm install -g knex
npm install -g jake
npm install -g nodemon
docker pull node:20
docker pull nginx:alpine
docker pull redis:alpine
docker network create orchestr8

Hosts

For the sake of testing that this system successfully serves the correct content to the correct hostnames, we point groovelet.local to 127.0.0.1