mup

Meteor UP

Production Quality Meteor Deployments

Meteor Up (mup for shorter) is a command line tool, which allows you to deploy any meteor app into a your own server. It support Ubuntu 12.04 or higher servers from any Cloud Infrastructure Provider.

Meteor UP Features

• Single command server setup
• Single command deployment
• Environmental Variables management
• Support for settings.json
• Password or Private Key(pem) based server authentication
• Access, logs from the terminal (supports log tailing)

Server Configurations Meteor Up Does

• Auto-Restart if the app crashed (using forever)
• Auto-Start after the server reboot (using upstart)
• Stepdown User Privileges
• Revert to the previous version, if the deployment failed
• Support for Hot Code Reload
• Secured MongoDB Installation
• Pre-Installed PhantomJS

Installation

npm install -g mup

If you are looking for password based authentication, you need to install sshpass on your local development machine.

Creating a Meteor Up Project

mkdir ~/my-meteor-deployment
cd ~/my-meteor-deployment
mup init

This will create two files in your mup project directory, which are:

• mup.json - Meteor Up configuration file
• settings.json - Settings for Meteor's settings API

mup.json is commented and easy to follow (it supports JavaScript comments)

Setting Up the Server

mup setup

This will setup the server for the mup deployments. It will take around 2-5 minutes depending on the server's performance and network availability.

Deploy the App

mup deploy

This will bundle the meteor project and deploy it to the server.

Access Logs

mup logs -f

Mup can tail logs from the server and it supports all the options of tail

Reconfiguring

After you've edit environmental variables or settings.json, you can reconfigure the app without deploying again. Use following command for that.

mup reconfig

Server Setup

Here is how Meteor Up, configure the server for you. This information will help you to customize server for your needs.

• your app is lives in /opt/meteor/app
• mup uses upstart with a config file at /etc/init/meteor.conf
• you can start and stop the app with upstart: start meteor and stop meteor
• logs are located at: /var/log/upstart/app.log
• MongoDB installed and bind to the local interface (cannot access from the outside)
• mongo is the name of the database

for more information see lib/taskLists.js