[Seaside] Ci automated deploy of seaside to Digital Ocean

[Sven Van Caekenberghe]

Have you also looked at systemd ? It is the new Linux thing for a while now. I use it successfully (https://github.com/svenvc/pharo-server-tools). It takes some getting used to, but it does work.

> On 11 May 2018, at 14:23, Tim Mackinnon <tim at testit.works> wrote:
> 
> 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? 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>>> 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?)
>> 
>> 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)
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-pets-vs-cattle/
>> , there are also "insects" now with microservices/lambda.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Esteban A. Maringolo
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