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Preferred way to have jingo run at startup, unattended? #200

Closed concentrateddon closed 7 years ago

concentrateddon commented 7 years ago

Is there a preferred way for having jingo start up, unattended, when the server boots?

concentrateddon commented 7 years ago

As a note, here's what I've come up with.

I'm using the pm2 Node.js module:

pm2 startup
pm2 start jingo -- -c /path/to/config.yaml

This gets Jingo running at server boot. The leaves the problem of letting Jingo access GitHub automatically. Because our server is fairly locked-down, we've chosen to use an un-password-protected private SSH key file. This lets us add the key file location to ~/.ssh/config, so that Git can find the SSH key automatically. It's been working smoothly.

claudioc commented 7 years ago

Thanks @concentrateddon for the hint. I indeed use pm2 myself (not only for Jingo but for all my node projects too).

If someone is reading this, take a moment to read the awesome introduction to pm2 from Digitalocean (their tutorials are always fantastic) https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-pm2-to-setup-a-node-js-production-environment-on-an-ubuntu-vps