Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
Assumes Ubuntu 13 x64 right now. Ideally have a domain ready to point to your host. It's designed for and is probably best to use a fresh VM. The bootstrapper will install everything it needs.
Note: There are known issues with docker and Ubuntu 13.10 (1, 2, 3) - use of 13.04 is reccomended until these issues are resolved.
$ wget -qO- https://raw.github.com/progrium/dokku/master/bootstrap.sh | sudo bash
This may take around 5 minutes. Certainly better than the several hours it takes to bootstrap Cloud Foundry.
You may also wish to take a look at the advanced installation document for aditional installation options.
Set up a domain and a wildcard domain pointing to that host. Make sure /home/dokku/VHOST
is set to this domain. By default it's set to whatever the hostname the host has. This file only created if the hostname can be resolved by dig (dig +short $HOSTNAME
). Otherwise you have to create the file manually and set it to your prefered domain. If this file still not present when you push your app, dokku will publish the app with a port number (i.e. http://example.com:49154
- note the missing subdomain).
You'll have to add a public key associated with a username by doing something like this from your local machine:
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh progriumapp.com "sudo sshcommand acl-add dokku progrium"
That's it!
Now you can deploy apps on your Dokku. Let's deploy the Heroku Node.js sample app. All you have to do is add a remote to name the app. It's created on-the-fly.
$ cd node-js-sample
$ git remote add progrium [email protected]:node-js-app
$ git push progrium master
Counting objects: 296, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (254/254), done.
Writing objects: 100% (296/296), 193.59 KiB, done.
Total 296 (delta 25), reused 276 (delta 13)
-----> Building node-js-app ...
Node.js app detected
-----> Resolving engine versions
... blah blah blah ...
-----> Application deployed:
http://node-js-app.progriumapp.com
You're done!
Right now Buildstep supports buildpacks for Node.js, Ruby, Python, and more. It's not hard to add more, go add more! Please check the documentation for your particular build pack as you may need to include configuration files (such as a Procfile) in your project root.
It's possible to run commands in the environment of the deployed application:
$ dokku run node-js-app ls -alh
$ dokku run <app> <cmd>
Dokku itself is built out of plugins. Checkout the wiki for information about creating your own and a list of existing plugins:
https://github.com/progrium/dokku/wiki/Plugins
SSH onto the server, then execute:
$ dokku delete myapp
Typically an application will require some environment variables to run properly. Environment variables may contain private data, such as passwords or API keys, so it is not recommend to store them in your application's repository.
The config
plugin provides the following commands to manage your variables:
config <app> - display the config vars for an app
config:get <app> KEY - display a config value for an app
config:set <app> KEY1=VALUE1 [KEY2=VALUE2 ...] - set one or more config vars
config:unset <app> KEY1 [KEY2 ...] - unset one or more config vars
Dokku provides easy SSL support from the box. To enable SSL connection to your application, copy .crt
and .key
file into /home/dokku/:app/ssl
folder (notice, file names should be server.crt
and server.key
, respectively). Redeployment of application will be needed to apply SSL configuration. Once it redeployed, application will be accessible by https://
(redirection from http://
is applied as well).
Dokku is in active development. You can update the deployment step and the build step separately.
To update the deploy step (this is updated less frequently):
$ cd ~/dokku
$ git pull origin master
$ sudo make install
Nothing needs to be restarted. Changes will take effect on the next push / deployment.
To update the build step:
$ git clone https://github.com/progrium/buildstep.git
$ cd buildstep
$ git pull origin master
$ sudo make build
This will build a fresh Ubuntu Quantal image, install a number of packages, and eventually replace the Docker image for buildstep.
You can use Github Issues, check Troubleshooting on the wiki, or join us on Freenode in #dokku
- Docker - Container runtime and manager
- Buildstep - Buildpack builder
- pluginhook - Shell based plugins and hooks
- sshcommand - Fixed commands over SSH
Looking to keep codebase as simple and hackable as possible, so try to keep your line count down.
- Multi-host. Not a huge leap, but this isn't the project for it. Have a look at Flynn.
- Multitenancy. It's ready for it, but again, have a look at Flynn.
- Client app. Given the constraints, running commands remotely via SSH is fine.
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