Hosting your app on a VPS - for RailsGirls

This slidedeck is complementary to our step-by-step guide on configuring and installing a VPS during the RailsGirls workshop: https://git.io/OPWEng

Transcript

1. Workshop Hosting your app RailsGirls, January 11
2. Hi! Michiel @michiels Jeroen @jvanbaarsen
3. Agenda • Show you how hosting an application works. • Experience setting up your own server.
5. $ heroku create $ git push heroku master Heroku makes it really easy to put your app online:
6. $ git push heroku master
7. And your app is magically running on some funky URL: http://funky-fox58.herokuapp.com
9. (Simplified) Let's zoom into that Heroku cloud for a bit.
10. = server
11. $ git push heroku master
12. $ git push heroku master
13. $ git push heroku master
14. So we're going to teach you to build your own little magic to host your app, with just one server.
15. What does a server or VPS look like? (Virtual Private Server)
16. In the physical world, servers look like this. This is a server, that is a server, they are all servers.
18. What software is on a VPS to run your application? Webserver program (nginx) Database (MySQL PostgreSQL Something else) Ruby on Rails application server (Passenger) Your Application code and files
19. What software is on a server to run your application? Your Application code and files
20. What software is on a server to run your application? Webserver program (nginx) Your Application code and files
21. What software is on a server to run your application? Webserver program (nginx) Database (MySQL PostgreSQL Something else) Your Application code and files
22. What software is on a server to run your application? Webserver program (nginx) Database (MySQL PostgreSQL Something else) Ruby on Rails application server (Passenger) Your Application code and files
23. Webserver program (nginx) Database (MySQL PostgreSQL Something else) Ruby on Rails application server (Passenger) Your Application code and files visitor's browser
24. Webserver program (nginx) Database (MySQL PostgreSQL Something else) Ruby on Rails application server (Passenger) Your Application code and files visitor's browser http://coolapp.com
25. Webserver program (nginx) Database (MySQL PostgreSQL Something else) Ruby on Rails application server (Passenger) Your Application code and files visitor's browser http://coolapp.com
26. Webserver program (nginx) Database (MySQL PostgreSQL Something else) Ruby on Rails application server (Passenger) Your Application code and files visitor's browser http://coolapp.com
27. Webserver program (nginx) Database (MySQL PostgreSQL Something else) Ruby on Rails application server (Passenger) Your Application code and files visitor's browser http://coolapp.com
28. Webserver program (nginx) Database (MySQL PostgreSQL Something else) Ruby on Rails application server (Passenger) Your Application code and files visitor's browser http://coolapp.com
29. Webserver program (nginx) Database (MySQL PostgreSQL Something else) Ruby on Rails application server (Passenger) Your Application code and files visitor's browser http://coolapp.com
30. Server access with SSH $ ssh root@85.234.12.5 $ ssh root@railsgirls-x.jvanbaarsen.com Every server has it's own IP address or domain name.
31. Workshop • Set up your own server using SSH • Deploy an application to your server with Capistrano
32. http://git.io/OPWEng Find the guide on: Thanks to DigitalOcean for providing our servers! Workshop
33. Next steps (1) • DigitalOcean http://digitalocean.com • Linode http://linode.com • Intercity - https://intercityup.com • Cloud66 - http://cloud66.com
34. Next steps (2) • Chef http://chef.io • Puppet http://puppetlabs.com