Pocketops

Pocketops offers you to configure your vanilla Ubuntu box as a Rails server with deployment. Pocketops uses Ansible to configure your remote server.

After including pocketops in your Rails app, you have the pops CLI to help you with your deployment.

$ pops init    # create a deploy user and lock down root
$ pops install # install and configure packages
$ pops deploy  # deploy current app
$ pops restart # restart passenger process (after updating env variables, etc.)

You can also control environment variables on the server (Heroku style):

$ pops config:set RAILS_ENV=staging
$ pops config:get
$ pops config:unset UNUSED_VARIABLE

Installation

Pocketops depends on Ansible, which needs to be installed separatly:

Linux:

Install Ansible with your distro's package manager, i.e. apt-get install ansible.

On OS X run:

brew install ansible

Then head over to your Rails project and add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pocketops', git: 'https://github.com/mpm/pocketops.git'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

Run

$ pops init

Which will guide you though creating config/pocketops.yml.

You need a server with Ubuntu 14.04 where you can log into as root via public key authentication.

Pocketops will lock down ssh login for the root user and create a rails user with sudo privilegs. Store the sudo password somewhere (you'll need it in the next step).

Then, Pocketops will configure the server for you by running:

$ pops install

after this is done, deply your app with

$ pops deploy

Status

This is work in progress. The server setup might totally change before we approach version 1.0.0.

Plans/TODO

Use foreman to run a local Procfile instead of using passenger.
Install redis so sidekiq can be used.
Clean up current entanglement with rails_env
Clean up Ansible playbook, use consistent variable names and declare dependencies.
Support letsencrypt automatic SSL certificate generation
Restart server after variables are updated
Allow adding/removing keys from authorized_keys via pops CLI
More automation (pops init and pops deploy should be one task if possible), detect custom playbooks in the Rails project automatically (currently loadable with pops custom).

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mpm/pocketops. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.