How to setup Dokku

How to setup Dokku

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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

  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.

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