Dick the Deployer

There is an automated deployment for quick installation. You can set various options that should take care of most configurations. However, if you want a full customized install, you can treat the automated deployment script as an example.

Automated deployment will deploy Dick the Deployer using current Docker host.

Note: you must have a Docker available.

Once deployed, the script will output the URL to connect and command required to run some workers.

curl https://dick-the-deployer.github.io/deploy | bash -s

Note: if you get an error “Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).” you need to specify algorithm manually curl --ciphers ecdhe_ecdsa_aes_256_sha https://dick-the-deployer.github.io/deploy | bash -s

For full usage details:

curl -s https://dick-the-deployer.github.io/deploy | bash -s -- -h

  ACTION: this is the action to use (deploy-web, upgrade-web, remove-web, deploy-workers, upgrade-workers, remove-workers)
  VERSION: version of docker images to use, default latest
  PORT: port to run web, default 8080
  WORKERS: this is the number of workers to create in deploy-workers action
  PREFIX: this is the prefix used by all Dick The Deployer components
  DICK_WEB_ADDRESS: this is the Dick The Deployer Web address used by workers to register in

Note: all variables are optional.

There are also several advanced options not included in full usage, please refer to the script content for details.

Options

To customize the deployment, you can specify the following environment variables.

Action

This controls the action for the script. Available options are:

• deploy-web: Deploy new Dick the Deployer instance
• upgrade-web: Upgrade Dick the Deployer instance.
• remove-web: Remove Dick the Deployer instance. (Some additional steps may be required, as printed by script)
• deploy-workers: Deploy two Workers and link them to Web. DICK_WEB_ADDRESS is required.
• upgrade-workers: Upgrade each available Worker instance.
• remove-workers: Remove each Worker instance.

Version

Version of Dick the Deployer container pulled from registry.

PORT

Port used by Dick the Deployer - Web module.