Joseph Post

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Deployment

2015-08-19

I like automating things, and I like deploying applications. Fortunately, I get to do a lot of this.

For this website, I don't need all the build complexity of an enterprise-scale microservices architecture, so I just use a few simple scripts.

At first I dockerized this site, but I was having issues running Docker on my VPS (which only has 256MB RAM). So I simplified.

#!/bin/sh

npm run clean
npm run build
scp -r build user@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:~/jcpst/

Yep, just scp (secure copy). npm run clean deletes my build/ directory, then npm run build... builds. Then I copy the fresh build onto my remote server. I already have http-server running using forever. I don't need to stop it and the site updates with almost zero downtime.

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