[Seaside] Ci automated deploy of seaside to Digital Ocean

[Tim Mackinnon]

Hey thanks for the prompts - I figured out my starting problem I was using —no-default-preferences as a VM parameter at its not, its an image parameter so it comes AFTER the image name on the command line… subtle but its the kind of thing that drives you crazy.

I will look at what it takes to add users to my DO account and run that way (its better as you suggest)

Tim

> On 11 May 2018, at 13:02, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/05/2018 08:45, Tim Mackinnon wrote:
>> Good to know you were pleased with it - I notice the Enterprise pharo
>> chapter uses monit - perhaps I may have to try that in instead (but
>> supervisord seemed much simpler). One small thought - I’ve been using my
>> default root login account  (the tutorials showing Digital Ocean all
>> seem to do this) - I have a nagging feeling this isn’t so cool - but I’m
>> not sure what the general practice is these days with cloud infrastructure? 
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> I normally don't, but mostly because the VPS I use are not "disposable",
> so I lock it down as if it were a physical server.
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> It is not "cloud" as in that my the servers have a name, not a number :)
> Using the analogy [1], my VPSs are pets, not cattle.
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>> Presumably supervisord needs to run as root? But my image doesn’t -
>> still I would have expected that it would all run fine as root (if not a
>> bit dangerously?)
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> supervisord will run as root, and in the process config you can specify
> the user for it (for some reason I omitted that last line, sorry)
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> In my previous example, you should add this to the config:
> user=trentosur   ; setuid to this UNIX account to run the program
> 
> I avoid running my software as root, in particular if the server where
> it is hosted contains information that shouldn't be read by anybody but me.
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> [1]
> https://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-pets-vs-cattle/
> , there are also "insects" now with microservices/lambda.
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> Esteban A. Maringolo
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