Dokku - Add ability for the platform to run on AWS without Heroku

[rootux]

So this is the summary of our Devops needs:

The idea is to move from Heroku to something similar on AWS that support CI - The solution is Dokku - it uses heroku buildpacks so it will feel like home - https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby

• [ ] 1. Dokku - https://github.com/dokku/dokku Deployed to our AWS cloud.
• [ ] 2. We need a t2.small server (2GB memory with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) that will run Puma webserver (through a Procfile) - It is already set up to run automatically as the Dokku is based on https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby so it already reads the Procfile and puma.rb is already configured in the project - should work out of the box.
• [ ] 3.The app (including the Procfile) is located here: https://github.com/midburn/dreams 4.Ability to connect to remote postgres db (Not sure yet - I assume this plugin will be useful - https://github.com/dokku/dokku-postgres)

Notice: A. We don't need a database - We have a postgres db on amazon we need to connect to this database. I will send you the credentials once the container is up. B. Bonus - Future thought - Add a Checks file to make sure that new containers are really up (http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/deployment/zero-downtime-deploys/#checks-examples). C.The final URL would be dreams.midburn.org yet for now we can also use stagingdreams.midburn.org (Not set up yet)

I recommend you follow this guide: https://blog.mebooks.co.nz/setting-up-your-own-paas-using-dokku/

And also read those guides for brevity: http://www.rubyfleebie.com/how-to-use-dokku-on-digitalocean-and-deploy-rails-applications-like-a-pro/

And the genius Yuval Adam post about it: http://blog.y3xz.com/blog/2014/01/29/dokku-as-an-heroku-replacement

Let's make it happen!

[yuvadm]

@rootux you don't need dokku-postgres since you're not running a postgres server on the dokku instance. Just point your ruby postgres client to the relevant RDS endpoint.

[rootux]

@yuvadm Respect having you here with us ❤. Thanks for the tip - Wasn't sure. will do.