This sample application is a quickstart to get StrongLoop Node running on a PaaS. The current PaaS environments, this quickstart deploys to are SalesForce's Heroku and Red Hat's OpenShift. VMWare's CloudFoundry is on its way - stay tuned!
To select the version of Node.js that you want to run, just edit or add a version to the strongloop/VERSION file.
Example: To install StrongLoop Node version 1.0.0-0.2.beta
echo -e "1.0.0-0.2.beta\n" >> strongloop/VERSION
The platform specific installers in the StrongLoop buildpack will use that VERSION file to download and extract the specific StrongLoop Node version if it is available and automatically setup the paths to use the node/npm binaries from the specific install directory.
Okay, now onto how you can get a StrongLoop supported Node.js version running on different PaaS environments.
To select the deployment mode, just edit or add the environment to your application in a file named strongloop/NODE_ENV
Example: To run in production mode
echo -e "production\n" >> strongloop/NODE_ENV
The platform specific installers in the StrongLoop buildpack will use that NODE_ENV file and set the environment for npm to install and run your application.
Okay, now onto how you can get a StrongLoop supported Node.js version running on the different PaaS environments.
On Heroku, the simplest method is to first optionally edit the config files as shown above, then create an app using the StrongLoop buildpack and finally push to your Heroku app. That's the tl;dr version - detailed steps below.
Create an account on http://heroku.com/
Install the Heroku toolbelt
See: https://toolbelt.heroku.com/ for instructions
Login into the Heroku:
heroku login
Clone this sample application
git clone git://github.com/strongloop/dist-paas-quickstart.git dynode
Change directory to your application and optionally edit the StrongLoop configuration if you wish to and commit those changes.
cd dynode
# vi/edit strongloop/*
git add strongloop
git commit . -m 'Added StrongLoop config files'
Install the required packages and optionally lock 'em down (set 'in-stone' the versions of the dependent packages you want to use):
npm install
npm shrinkwrap
You can also run the application locally via:
npm start
And when you are satisfied that all's ok, just push your app to Heroku:
# Create an app with this buildpack and push to it.
heroku apps:create -b git://github.com/strongloop/dist-paas-buildpack.git
git push heroku master
This will now download and configure StrongLoop Node on Heroku, install the dependencies as specified in the sample application's package.json file (or npm-shrinkwrap.json if one exists).
That's it, you can now checkout your StrongLoop Node application at the app url/domain returned from the heroku apps:create command.
Example: http://whispering-coast-1234.herokuapp.com/
Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/
Create a namespace, if you haven't already do so
rhc domain create <yournamespace>
Create a nodejs-0.6 application (you can name it anything via -a)
rhc app create -a slnode -t nodejs-0.6
Add this github strongloop-paas-quickstart repository
cd slnode
git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/strongloop/dist-paas-quickstart.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master
Change directory to your application and optionally edit the StrongLoop configuration if you wish to and commit those changes.
cd dynode
# vi/edit strongloop/*
git add strongloop
git commit . -m 'Added StrongLoop config files'
Then push the repo to OpenShift
git push
That's it, you can now checkout your application at:
http://slnode-$yournamespace.rhcloud.com
Create an account on http://cloudfoundry.com/
For now, you will also need to register for the test/beta env @
http://console.a1.cf-app.com/register
Install the cf command line tools
sudo gem install cf --pre
# If you run into issues w/ dependencies if you have the older vmc
# tools installed, then try uninstalling the vmc tools + other
# gems and run something like:
# sudo gem uninstall vmc cf
# sudo gem uninstall tunnel-cf-plugin cf-uaa-lib manifests-cf-plugin
# sudo gem uninstall caldecott-client cfoundry
#
# sudo gem install cfoundry
# sudo gem install cf --pre
# sudo gem install cfoundry --pre
# sudo gem install manifests-cf-plugin --pre
See: http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/tools/vmc/installing-vmc.html
Login into the CloudFoundry PaaS:
cf login
Target the CloudFoundry PaaS:
# Normally, this would just be:
# cf target https://api.cloudfoundry.com
# But for the buildpack support, you will need to target the
# test/beta environment instead.
cf target api.a1.cf-app.com
Clone this quickstart:
git clone git://github.com/strongloop/dist-paas-quickstart.git dynode
Change directory to your application and optionally edit the StrongLoop configuration if you wish to and commit those changes.
cd dynode
# vi/edit strongloop/*
git add strongloop
git commit . -m 'Added StrongLoop config files'
Install the required packages and optionally lock 'em down:
npm install
npm shrinkwrap
You can optionally run the application locally by just running:
npm start
And when you are satisfied that all's ok, push your app to CloudFoundry.
cf push dynode \
--buildpack=git://github.com/strongloop/dist-paas-buildpack.git \
--no-create-services --instances 1 --memory 128M
Note: The first time you run vmc push, you will need to specify all the
parameters - this will create a new application at CloudFoundry.
domain example: slnode-app.cloudfoundry.com.
And save the configuration example: y.
Subsequent pushes just need the cf push command - you only need to
specify all those options the first time you create the app (push).
This will now download and configure StrongLoop Node on CloudFoundry, install the dependencies as specified in the sample application's package.json file (or npm-shrinkwrap.json if one exists).
That's it, you can now checkout your StrongLoop Node application at the app url/domain you set for your CloudFoundry app.
Example: http://dynode.cloudfoundry.com/