Emi Matchu
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I'm starting to port over the functionality that was previously just, me running `yarn db:export:public-data` in `impress-2020` and committing it to Git LFS every time. My immediate motivation is that the `impress-2020` git repository is getting weirdly large?? Idk how these 40MB files have blown up to a solid 16GB of Git LFS data (we don't have THAT many!!!), but I guess there's something about Git LFS's architecture and disk usage that I'm not understanding. So, let's move to a simpler system in which we don't bind the public data to the codebase, but instead just regularly dump it in production and make it available for download. This change adds the `rails public_data:commit` task, which when run in production will make the latest available at `https://impress.openneo.net/public-data/latest.sql.gz`, and will also store a running log of previous dumps, viewable at `https://impress.openneo.net/public-data/`. Things left to do: 1. Create a `rails public_data:pull` task, to download `latest.sql.gz` and import it into the local development database. 2. Set up a cron job to dump this out regularly, idk maybe weekly? That will grow, but not very fast (about 2GB per year), and we can add logic to rotate out old ones if it starts to grow too far. (If we wanted to get really intricate, we could do like, daily for the past week, then weekly for the past 3 months, then monthly for the past year, idk. There must be tools that do this!) |
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Dress to Impress is deployed to a VPS server. We use this Ansible Playbook to automate the environment setup! We expect to be deploying to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, initially with nothing installed. The user you deploy with should have sudoers access. That should be all it takes! First, run `yarn deploy:setup` in the app root, to run the `setup.yml` playbook. This will prompt you for your root password, to set up system dependencies. It should be safe to re-run this, including if you add a new dependency to the playbook, because the steps are non-destructive and Ansible will skip steps that are already satisfied. Then, to deploy a new version of the app, run `yarn deploy`. This will build the app from the code on your machine, then send the source and build output to the remote machine, and switch it to be the new production version. Nice! Note that the setup script references a file named `production.env`, which is gitignored because it contains sensitive information, like database passwords. You should create a `production.env` file in the local `deploy/files` directory, to be copied to the remote server and used as its environment variables.