QA/Production Deployment

Note This configuration is specific to the qa/production environment at Dartmouth.

Overview

Capistrano 3.x is used to deploy the application.

The application is deployed at /opt/deploy/LinkedNameAuthority. On qa.dac.dartmouth.edu, Capistrano deploys the develop branch and the application is served to the public at at qa.dac.dartmouth.edu/lna. On lna.dartmouth.edu, Capistrano deploys the master branch and is served to the public at lna.dartmouth.edu. If the application has been deployed, before you can skip to step 2.

Instructions

The instructions for deploying to qa or production are identical.

If this is the first time deploying to qa/production, on qa.dac/lna
- Create an empty folder at:
  /opt/deploy/LinkedNameAuthority/shared
- Create a file called .env in /opt/deploy/LinkedNameAuthority/shared with necessary environment variables. See Environment Variables for a list of required variables.
From your development machine run:
```
bundle exec cap [qa|production] deploy
```
This will checkout the develop or master branch of the application, run any migrations, compile assets, write the crontab and restart apache.
If this is the first time deploying to qa/production, and you would like to load all the data without waiting for the cron job run:
```
bundle exec cap [qa|production] deploy:load_data
```
If this is the first time deploying to qa/production, you will probably want to seed the db, with basic roles and privileges for the developers.
```
bundle exec cap [qa|production] deploy:seed_db
```