node-distribute
continuous deployment of node services, make your own vpn ☁️
setup
requires redis-cli
to be installed locally
npm install node-distribute -g
node-distribute start
// server will now be running
if you want to run this on port 80 use iptables to do the routing
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 1337
Configuration
how to configure node-distribute
two services are started with node-distribute a git server and a http server to host the admin page
(admin:1337) and (git server:7000)
repos.json
[
{
"subdomain": "...",
"name": "...",
"type": String (NODE, STATIC)
"anonRead": false,
"options": {
"directory": "..."
},
"users": [
{
"user": {
"username": "...",
"password": "..."
},
"permissions": [
"R",
"W"
]
}
]
}
]
How do I get an app to deploy with no subdomain?
to deploy an app to the root level just simply use the *
character in the subdomain field
[
{
"subdomain": "*",
...
}
]
to push to this repository simply run
git push http://{user}:{password}@localhost:7000/test.git master
user.json
admin account / default repo user
{
"username": "...",
"password": "..."
}
additional information
setting a wildcard domain up on localhost (mac)
http://asciithoughts.com/posts/2014/02/23/setting-up-a-wildcard-dns-domain-on-mac-os-x/
updating docs
If you update the docs, please also copy changes to /test/fixtures/main-app
Thank you!