Hi Eddie and Lloyd, “It depends” is indeed the correct answer...
Most Zotonic installations fall in two categories: 1. Deployment via a Docker container, which is updated before deployment 2. Deployment via git (manual or automatic) Some follow (1), I follow (2). Nice thing of (2) is that it allows for hot code upgrades and quick turnaround of small patches. When we are i a development cycle for new features we might have 10 to 20 deployments per day. This goes very smooth, we even deploy minor updates to Zotonic and dependencies using hot code upgrades. Zotonic itself can watch changes in the file system and dynamically load new files. Most of the updates we deploy have only minor changes. Think of changes to templates, css, or translations. And minor Erlang changes (ie. not completely new apps or other dependencies). That is why we can have updates-via-git without service interruption. The orgs that deploy via Docker (option 1) - have typically less frequent updates and perform periodic major updates. As the whole container is updated this also restarts the Zotonic server. Of course it is also possible to deploy using the OTP release mechanism. This is something that will be possible with the 1.0 (really soon now) of Zotonic, as that version is OTP compliant. I personally never had the need to use OTP releases as the version control via git is good enough for us. (Especially with rebar3 managing versions of dependencies.) Cheers, Marc > On 14 Jan 2019, at 17:40, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Eddie, > > I'm in a similar situation--- planning soon to release a Nitrogen web > application but feeling profound apprehension since I don't have a clear > understanding of risks and how to minimize them. > > No doubt the flip answer is, "It depends..." Are we talking cloud hosting or > on-premises? What are projected traffic patterns? Etc. Etc. > > But "It depends..." doesn't help folks like us who lack experience or > organizational support. > > One can find considerable information on the web covering firewalls, proxy > servers, load balancers, site hardening, etc. But, like you, I've found > little in the Erlang corpus that provides sufficiently clear patterns and > guidelines to assuage my Erlang release/production apprehensions. > > It may well be a book-length topic or more, but even a thoughtful, thorough > tutorial, or even a checklist, would be helpful. > > Please do let me know what you come up with. > > All the best, > > Lloyd > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 9:28am > To: "Zotonic developers" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Zotonic-Dev] zotonic CI deployment best practice for 2019 > > Hi, > I have followed zotonic for the last couple of years and am now interested in > setting up a production server for zotonic. > I have just spent some time searching zotonic users and zotonic developers > for an up to date guide on how you would go about developing and deploying > zotonic to a production environment. > most of the links I found range from between 2010 - 2012. > I have looked through the zotonic documentation as well. > I have also installed locally using the zotonic full docker container and the > manual install. > I am looking for a guide for Git / continuous integration / continuous > deployment guide and any best practice tips. > Is something like this available? > Many thanks > Eddie L > (Uk based) > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Zotonic developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Zotonic developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Zotonic developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
