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5 years ago @ChrisRackauckas thanks for your input! This is coming (I'm actually pretty advanced with the documentation). It's not just the documentation, it's also offering the tools for lifting the heavy load for the users. The idea being to bundle this functionality into some Genie.Deploy module and automate deployments as much as possible.
At this point, there are two main hosting strategies:
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Docker containers - this would work on any host supporting Docker deployments. And I have a Dockerfile I use to deploy apps in production, creating a robust environment. Obviously, the instructions from the Dockerfile can be used as a script to set up any Linux VPS, not only Docker containers.
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Heroku buildpacks - @milesfrain designed a solution for these: https://github.com/GenieFramework/Genie.jl/issues/163# but it still needs to be incorporated into the docs.
Longer term the objective is to provide a Genie cloud to easily set up and deploy Genie apps with DBs, cache, etc in one command.
If you are familiar with Docker deployments, as an early preview, here is the contents of the Dockerfile which sets up Genie with Nginx (web proxy) and Supervisord (to restart the app in case it crashes).
FROM julia:latest
# dependencies
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y supervisor && apt-get install -y net-tools
# nginx
RUN apt-get install -y nginx
RUN service nginx start
# supervisor
COPY supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/supervisord.conf
RUN mkdir /app
COPY . /app
WORKDIR /app
COPY ./Manifest.toml /app/Manifest.toml
COPY ./Project.toml /app/Project.toml
RUN julia -e "using Pkg; pkg\"activate . \"; pkg\"instantiate\"; pkg\"precompile\"; "
# PORTS
EXPOSE 8000
EXPOSE 80
# start app via supervisor
CMD ["/usr/bin/supervisord"]And here is the supervisord.conf file:
[supervisord]
logfile = /tmp/supervisord.log
logfile_maxbytes = 50MB
logfile_backups=10
loglevel = info
pidfile = /tmp/supervisord.pid
nodaemon = true
minfds = 1024
minprocs = 200
umask = 022
identifier = supervisor
nocleanup = true
childlogdir = /tmp
strip_ansi = false
[rpcinterface:supervisor]
supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = supervisor.rpcinterface:make_main_rpcinterface
[unix_http_server]
file=/tmp/supervisor.sock
[supervisorctl]
serverurl=unix:///tmp/supervisor.sock
[program:genieapp]
directory=/app
user=genie
environment=HOME="/home/genie"
command=/bin/bash -c 'GENIE_ENV=prod julia --color=yes --depwarn=no -q -i -- bootstrap.jl s'
stdout_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/genieapp-stdout.log
stderr_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/genieapp-stderr.log
priority=999
autostart=true
autorestart=unexpected
startsecs=10
startretries=3
exitcodes=0
stopsignal=TERM
stopwaitsecs=10
stopasgroup=false
killasgroup=false
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Genie seems really cool, and I understand how to locally fire up a webserver and make an app. However, I don't understand how to deploy such a thing to Bluehost for example. Maybe this part is obvious to some who does webdev, but I'd be really interested in seeing some documentation on how to get Julia installed on common webservers and getting this running on a real website.