Thanks Sanjay - you have reminded me that I have some similar notes somewhere (now located) that did the command line foo to get things running - looking at mine there was quite a big of dance to provide a way to gracefully stop and start the image so that you can easily and automatically redeploy your changes (read: use Github actions or Gitlab CI).
So I’m curious on whether Docker is now sufficiently stable stable/easy/cheap to make it a viable alternative - and whether that is also cost efficient. Pablo wrote a recent blog post on running Pharo in Docker using the BA images - https://thepharo.dev/2021/02/24/running-pharo-9-in-docker/ <https://thepharo.dev/2021/02/24/running-pharo-9-in-docker/> - but while easy on the surface, if anything goes wrong - there seems to be very little debug output to know what has happened (I’ll post separately on this - as I’m looking at comparing options here). With Docker options, I notice that dockerize.io <http://dockerize.io/> (not used, just a quick search) - has a micro plan for $2/m - but is 500mb ram enough (there is a $5 one for 1gm ram). Or - I stick with DigitalOcean and roll my own like before - and perhaps that has got a bit simpler. I’m still curious what the wider community is doing. Tim > On 2 Apr 2021, at 05:43, Sanjay Minni <s...@planage.com> wrote: > > Hi Tim > > Here are my notes on installing Pharo in a DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplet. > I usually go thru a Windows Command prompt box having installed xfec4 in the > ubuntu droplet, but the command line connect and graphical remote may be > easier for a Linux users. my ssh public key is also in the DO droplet > Now the first step for me is a installing Pharo launcher thru command line > and then everything is thru graphical interface > > Installing and checking Pharo-Launcher, Installing Pharo 8 64 bit from > pharo.org <http://pharo.org/> (instructions as on Pharo.org) > 1. In Windows 10 command prompt connect thru > ssh root@<Droplet-ip> > 2. cd > 3. curl -o pharo-launcher.zip -L > https://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/linux64 > <https://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/linux64> > 4. unzip pharo-launcher.zip > or thru the GUI-> extract here > (pharo-launcher files will be extracted in ./pharo-launcher) > Now while connected to the linux graphical interface thru windows remote > terminal and in the GUI > 5. Create a icon on desktop thru right-click “Create Launcher” for > pharo-launcher > 6. Create pharo images thru pharo-launcher > > hope this is of use > > Sanjay Minni > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 16:31, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > Hi everyone - its been a few year since I last hosted a little Pharo web app > - and the last time I did, Sven pointed me to DigitalOcean and creating a > tiny instance and configuring an Ubuntu server and then copying a pharo image > on to that. It recall it wasn’t too bad, albeit a bit fiddly… > > Now several years later - I can’t recall the exact steps, and vaguely recall > there was something about 32bit vs 64bit setup etc - but am wondering if > things have advanced a bit and whether its much simpler these days? I’ve seen > references to Docker images for Pharo, and am wondering if now that is a > prime time way to easily get a small demo application up and running with > minimal fuss. > > Does anyone have advice - or something to point me to? > > Ideally I want to hook something up in Gitlab CI do deploy to this thing > automatically (this is where I got to a few years ago - but in picking things > back up I am hoping this has all got much simpler). > > Tim
