keter/README.md
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Deployment system for Yesod (and other Haskell) web apps.
## Setup
Instructions are for an Ubuntu system. Eventually, I hope to provide a PPA for
this (please contact me if you would like to assist with this). For now, the
following steps should be sufficient:
First, install PostgreSQL
sudo apt-get install postgresql
Second, build the `keter` binary and place it at `/usr/bin`.
Third, create a Keter config file:
```yaml
# /opt/keter/etc/keter-config.yaml
root: ..
# host: host to bind to
# port: port to listen on
# ssl:
# host:
# port:
# key:
# certificate:
```
Fourth, set up an Upstart job to start `keter` when your system boots.
```
# /etc/init/keter.conf
start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems and runlevel [2345])
stop on runlevel [016]
respawn
console none
exec /usr/bin/keter /opt/keter/etc/keter-config.yaml
```
Finally, start the job for the first time:
sudo start keter
## Bundles
An application needs to be set up as a keter bundle. This is a GZIPed tarball
with a `.keter` filename extension and which has one special file:
`config/keter.yaml`. A sample file is:
```yaml
exec: ../dist/build/yesodweb/yesodweb
args:
- production
host: www.yesodweb.com
ssl: false # true would use https scheme for approot
```
A sample Bash script for producing a Keter bundle is:
```bash
#!/bin/bash -ex
cabal build
strip dist/build/yesodweb/yesodweb
rm -rf static/tmp
tar czfv yesodweb.keter dist/build/yesodweb/yesodweb config static
```
For users of Yesod, The `yesod` executable provides a `keter` command for
creating the bundle, and the scaffolded site provides a `keter.yaml` file.
__TODO__: Keter now supports multiple hosts and static file hosting. The
support is experimental, and the config file may change. If it's sometime after
October 2012 and you're still reading this text, please file an issue that the
docs need to be updated.
## Deploying
In order to deploy, you simply copy the keter bundle to `/opt/keter/incoming`.
To update an app, copy in the new version. The old process will only be
terminated after the new process has started answering requests. To stop an
application, delete the file from incoming.
## Technical Details
Components:
* Logger: provides a file descriptor to redirect output to. Takes the name of
the app.
* Process: Give it all the information (executable, working directory,
environment, args) for a process, and it will start the process and monitor
it. If the process dies, it will restart. Binds the output to the logger.
Allows you to terminate the process.
* Postgres: Ask it for database information for an app. If no information is
available, it will create a database/user.
* TempFolder: Wipes out a folder on startup, then assigns random, unique
folders inside it on request.
* App: Started with a path to an app bundle. Unpacks into a random folder
inside the temp folder, gets a random port, starts a Process, updates Nginx,
and waits for commands. Accepts two commands: reload and terminate.
* Terminate kills the existing process, removes from Nginx, and deletes the
folder.
* Reload gets a new random port, unpacks to a new folder in the temp
folder, starts a Process, waits till the process is "ready" (checks with
an HTTP request)- canceling after a certain timeout.
* If process is not ready within timeout, terminate the new process and
delete the new folder.
* If a process *is* ready, tell Nginx to use the new port, wait some
amount of time (20 seconds?), send a TERM to the old process, wait
some more (1 minute?) and delete the old folder.
* Keter: Delete temp folder, start the Nginx, logger, and port assigner. Start
a new App for each app in the incoming folder. Monitor for file changes in
the incoming folder, and appropriately start a new app, reload an existing app,
or delete an existing app. Also provide a web interface based on logger.