How to setup Dokku

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:
     • Digital Ocean
     • Linode
   • 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

2. SSH into your server through IP and pass or SSH key if you provided one.

   •   ssh username@ip-address
     

3. Change the server hostname

   hostnamectl set-hostname <your-domain.com>
   
   echo "<your.vps.ip> <your-domain.com> dokku" >> /etc/hosts
   

4. 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

     

5. Let's run that script on our Ubuntu server

   curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/dokku/dokku/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
   

   • 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
   

   • 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
   

6. Install docker

   wget -nv -O - https://get.docker.com/ | sh
   

   Check if Docker is installed by running

   docker version
   

    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
   

   Versions may vary

7. 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.