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How to setup Dokku

#dokku #docker #heroku #devops

Let's jump into it... fast. You got here because you want to setup Dokku and the other ways don't work... let's goooo

I will setup for Dokku only

  1. Point your domain to the VPS of choice
  • Spin up new VPS server here:
  • Buy a domain from Namecheap/Godaddy for 0.99\$ for first-time accounts

  • Create an A record to point to your VPS Ip

     - Type -> A
 - Name -> *.your-domain-name.com
 - Value -> <your.vps.ip>

  • Just a note pick a VPS server with 1GB RAM memory that will probably cost you \$5

  1. SSH into your server through IP and pass or SSH key if you provided one. 
ssh username@ip-address
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  1. Change the server hostname 
hostnamectl set-hostname <your-domain.com>

echo "<your.vps.ip> <your-domain.com> dokku" >> /etc/hosts
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  1. So we gonna use a script to get this thing installed, we will head over to Package cloud to get the script.

  • The script was created Dokku and they one for each Linux os

  1. Let's run that script on our Ubuntu server 
   curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/dokku/dokku/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
   sudo apt-get install dokku
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  • Select Yes when this window pops up

  • Check if dokku is installed by typing id dokku

  • Start the Dokku service

    sytemctl status dokku-installer.service
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  • Confirm the service is running by typing systemctl is-enabled dokku-installer.service the result is enabled if it's running

  • Let's install core dependencies

    dokku plugin:install-dependencies --core
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  1. Install docker 
   wget -nv -O - https://get.docker.com/ | sh
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Check if Docker is installed by running

   docker version
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    Client:
    Version:           18.06.0-ce
    API version:       1.38
    Go version:        go1.10.3
    Git commit:        0ffa825
    Built:             Wed Jul 18 19:09:54 2018
    OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
    Experimental:      false
    Server:
    Engine:
    Version: 18.06.0-ce
    API version: 1.38 (minimum version 1.12)
    Go version: go1.10.3
    Git commit: 0ffa825
    Built: Wed Jul 18 19:07:56 2018
    OS/Arch: linux/amd64
    Experimental: false
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Versions may vary

  1. Configure Dokku by visiting your IP on your browser

    • Remember the hostname we provided step 3 just paste on the Hostname input and check the virtualized host checkbox.
    • The value for the input of the virtualized hostname will now be. 
     http://<app-name>.<your-host-name.com>
  • Click on Finish Setup you will be redirected to the dokku docs.

Conclusion

In the next Bits I will look into more Dokku or something else.

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