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Production ready alternative to snapd

Production ready alternative to snapd

Wekan/General · February 15, 2020 at 1:51am

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Production ready alternative to snapd

Wekan / General · February 15, 2020 at 1:51am (Edited 4 years ago)

Hi,

while I would love to install wekan on my server I am struggling on which method I should go for. Snapd is unfortunately not an option because my VPS does not support snapd installations. I have installed docker on my server but within the docs of wekan its sounds like its not a good solution for production deployments. Could someone please tell me which route I should go for or are they any good alternatives?

I am also not a fan of Univention, Sandstorm or paid services.

Regards

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February 15, 2020 at 2:29am
Lauri Ojansivu@xet7
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2:29am

With Snapd, it updagrades everything: migrates database schema changes, updates node.js, etc all dependencies

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    2:29am

    It's most trouble free

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      2:30am

      Some did say that LDAP does not work properly with Docker. It works in Snap.

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        2:31am

        Docker is much more compilcated tech

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          2:33am

          Inside strict sandbox of Snap Wekan code can not access files outside of /var/snap/wekan/common directory

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            2:33am

            Code is set as read only in snap

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              etc safety features

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                2:35am

                Usually on some VPS if snapd does not work, it could have some outdated virtualization tech like OpenVZ with old version of linux kernel, or some other limited kernels that OVH or Kimsufi uses

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                  2:35am

                  There is no reason to use such outdated and old server tech

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                    2:35am

                    There is Digital Ocean etc cheap providers

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                      2:36am

                      and you can also run snap in any bare metal, KVM/XEN/HyperV/VirtualBox/VMware etc

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                        2:36am

                        Upcloud, Hetzner, AWS, Azure

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                          2:37am

                          Wekan runs on any laptop or desktop that has for example Ubuntu or Debian Linux installed

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                            Paul Verdone@pvcon13
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                            I think snapd was and is excellent to handle a dev environment, even thought I am used manually scripting everything, adjusting everything carefully and then commiting those procedures to a devops strategy with aws, google, etc plugins to terraform. So I agree, BUT

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                              2:49am

                              when wekan gets deployment in a production environment with hooks across servers sharing a mongo (a master slave system) there is not an easy path to doing that with Snap.

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                                So I for one would like a more precise external set of bash level controls that like every other system I create lets me handle security (like authentication to mongo) and load balancing of both wekan services and databases.

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                                  2:52am

                                  So snap is great to build something easily and quickly. Then what happens?

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                                    Lauri Ojansivu@xet7
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                                    2:56am

                                    For bash level controls, you download bundle wekan-3.xx.zip that is for x86_64 from https://releases.wekan.team and install it similarly like RasPi bundle: https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Raspberry-Pi

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                                      and start it as service

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                                        2:57am

                                        for that, only node + mongodb is required

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                                          or actually,when you already have mongodb somewhere, only node

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                                            2:58am

                                            that bundle does run on any server, also on those that have some kernel restrictions or OpenVZ

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                                              3:02am

                                              For external mongodb, it mongodb requires login, you can add username and password and IP address etc to MONGO_URL

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                                                3:07am

                                                It's also possible to use some part of bash autoupgrade script, if you need automatic upgrades https://github.com/wekan/wekan-bash-install-autoupgrade

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                                                  3:07am

                                                  there is some regex to download newest bundle

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