Deploying Drutopia updates

Prerequsites

A bit more PHP than you need, but this will definitely get you ready for composer and friends:

@TODO Switch these commands to PHP 8.1?

sudo apt-get install ansible rsync php7.4 php7.4-gd php7.4-mysql php7.4-xml php7.4-curl php7.4-fpm php7.4-sqlite3 php7.4-cli

Then follow the commands from:

getcomposer.org/download

And then:

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

To make working with Drutopia Platform's recommended Ansible setup easier (and for the following instructions to work), install Ahoy per its instructions:

github.com/ahoy-cli/ahoy

Get yourself added to the Drutopia Platform project on GitLab if you are not already, and ensure your public SSH key is on Gitlab.

Finally, clone needed Drutopia repositories locally according to the recommended setup.

Now you are ready for deploying Drutopia updates on a regular basis.

Ensure you are up-to-date

cd ~/Projects/drutopia-platform/drutopia_host/hosting_private
ahoy git-pull-all

ahoy new-site example

And, following the instructions that provides, copy the

ansible-vault edit host_vars/elizabeth.mayfirst.org/vault.yml

If using typical sitename-test.drutopia.org and sitename-live.drutopia.org domains pending the real site domain, add the subdomains to drutopia.org through the May First control panel

Prepare appropriate base

ahoy deploy-build next

Deploy your site

ahoy deploy-site example_test

And you can share back the record of the deployments in the build_artifacts repository with this:

ahoy artifacts

Putting it all together

cd ~/Projects/drutopia-platform/drutopia_host/hosting_private
ahoy git-pull-all        
ahoy deploy-build next
ahoy deploy-site example_live
ahoy artifacts

If you need to override site configuration:

ahoy deploy-site-force example_test

Sync live database to test

If you have new content on the live site that you want to see how your code works with, or if you have created entities on the test site that block the removal of configuration you changed your mind about, you will want to sync from live to test.

ssh d-example-live
sync_to_test.sh

This handles making a paranoia dump of the test site in ~/backups, dropping the test database to ensure no tables are left to clutter and interfere, skipping the content of cache tables, and bringing over user files (skipping cache files like the twig folder).

Bonus: Keep Drutopia builds with similar available modules

To try to keep various Drutopia-based distributions from diverging too much, at least insofar as available modules, even if they aren't installed, we can use the meld (sudo apt-get install meld) diff tool to compare and share when posssible.

meld ~/Projects/agaric/sites/crla/crla-org/composer.json ~/Projects/agaric/sites/geo/composer.json ~/Projects/drutopia-platform/build_source/composer.json ~/Projects/agaric/sites/agaric-com/composer.json

When these align in not needing special patches or versions, we can consider dropping a custom build in favor of collaborating on a single one.

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