Recently, I had to deploy a project to a DigitalOcean droplet. One of the features I really wanted for this particular project was a Continuous Del...
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Hi Lewis, thanks for this tutorial!
I didn't understand one point - how to find out the value of containername?
Hi Александр,
I'm super happy you found the article useful.
You as the developer assign the containers a name of your choosing.
This is done by running
where container_name and image_name are variables.
More about the docker run command here :)
Should you wish to see a list of all running containers you can then run
Sometimes the container may have exited early and stopped. Probably due to a bad build. You can check these stopped containers by running
There is a
Names
column where you can see all the containers with their names.Alternatively, if you use vscode, the docker extension is particularly helpful for debugging, listing containers by name and running quick docker commands.
Thank you for the detailed answer!
So it turns out that the name of the container is set in the last line of the yml file, right?
I do so (my docker.yml), but I get errors at the deployment stage:
I apologize if I ask stupid questions :)
This is my first experience in setting up ci/cd
Looks like i fixed it
Buuut.. I don't see any changes on the server
The project should have been uploaded to the folder specified in WORKDIR in Dockerfile, right?
Awesome!
No the workdir is for the docker container, not your server.
Check your server_ip:3000 in the browser
Or ssh into the server and run the docker ps commands
The project is uploaded to github container registry, your server only downloads the image from there and builds a container from it.
The project code doesn't even need to be in the server
Apparently I don't understand some important point. Now, the frontend of my project on the server is running from the directory /var/www/www-root/data/www/732273-cc00798.tmweb.ru/frontend
I thought I should specify this directory somewhere
Usually, I start project manually via ssh:
Then i can open 732273-cc00798.tmweb.ru:3000/ and see working website
And now I want to automate this process.
I thought that if I do everything according to your instructions, then after committing to the master branch, the server will update and restart on its own.
Maybe I misunderstood? 😥
Looks like no docker containers found
Make sure nothing else is bound to port 3000 before you start your newly created container.
The project is still available to your server only that it will now be within an image.
So what you do manually via ssh won't be necessary anymore.
In the case of a directory, it will be in form of a process (running container). So your nginx configuration has to change and be bound to this process as opposed to some directory in case that's how you did it before.
The docker container is disconnected immediately after the deployment.
Maybe some kind of error is happening somewhere, where can I see it?
Check the logs and make sure that you don't have any other process bound to port 3000 in your server.
Best of luck as you continue to debug.
I found the error:
What could be the problem? Manual startup works fine
It works!! Thnx for all!! 🥳🥳🥳
Yay 🎉
A new problem - everything seems to be working, but new changes are not being pulled up...
No errors, website works, docker container id changes after new deploy
Hey dude. That's not a problem.
New containers get a unique ID every time :)
Yes, I know. The problem is not that, the problem is that new changes are not being pulled up
It has now been updated when I manually made "docker rm -vf$(docker ps -aq) and docker rmif$(docker images -aq)" on the server before the deployment
Hey
HI
This is a great article thanks for sharing this informative information. Movierulz
Most welcome.
Happy you found it useful!