Hi everyone!
I just wrote a quick tutorial on how to deploy a meteor application (Rocket Chat) with Sticky Sessions, Websockets, SSL, and a $5 DO box in 10 minutes or less.
If it’s helpful let me know. If it’s not helpful let me know.
Kind regards,
Kris
Man, this is complicated. Why not setup nginx and node and you’re done?
Do we have ssh access to a DO? I need access to the file system OUTSIDE of Meteor because I use it to store pdf templates and write temporary files.
I can’t figure out (because I don’t have the time to put into it) how to do this in Docker, so I have to go native or metal.
Yes you have complete SSH access to DO machines (just like EC2). In fact our deployment method I shared previously calls ssh using private key to the target machine.
This is good. I’ll consider DO when I’m ready to look at hosting providers again.
Also, I forked arunoda’s meteor-up (it is abandoned, with the last version here was 0.11.3 and created a brand new repo that picks up where it left off – namely supporting 1.2 + deployments without docker. I called it meteor-up-classic. I’ve successfully gotten 1.3.5.1 running using mup-classic (where as arunoda’s mup doesn’t support anything above meteor 1.2).
Of course if you need or want docker, kadirahq’s meteor-up is where the new development is taking place. I my case I can’t use docker because I need access to the file system (read/write/delete dirs and files) OUTSIDE of the Meteor application and don’t know enough about docker to configure that (and don’t have the cycles to figure it out right now) – hence meteor-up-classic.