Trying Out This Website

Lately, there have been a few inquiries about deploying the source code of my website. Unfortunately for my own convenience, Less configuration to think about. very few of my resources are deployed directly or entirely with Docker. You can however get an instance of this website running very quickly with linux containers. My personal deployment strategy is mostly ad hoc, so a linux container is the easiest way for me to deliver a demo of the source code.

Installing and running lxc on your system should theoretically be the hardest part. To get this up and running, create a container and change to its working directory.

lxc-create --name app --template download -- --dist alpine --release 3.14 --arch amd64 --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com
cd /var/lib/lxc/app

Remove We can generate an empty container with the command lxc-create -n empty -t none, but the generated config file will be empty too. the contents of the container file system. The rootfs will be replaced with the website’s file system.

rm -rf rootfs/*

Download the website here, verify its checksum, and extract the contents into rootfs.

wget https://www.thedroneely.com/download/rootfs.tar.gz
tar --numeric-owner -xzvf rootfs.tar.gz -C rootfs/

Start the website and get its IP address.

lxc-start -n app
lxc-ls -f

The output should look something like the following.

NAME     STATE   AUTOSTART GROUPS IPV4       IPV6 UNPRIVILEGED
app      RUNNING 0         -      x.x.x.x    -    false

Cockpit CMS can be accessed at http://x.x.x.x/cockpit. Isso’s administration page can be accessed at http://x.x.x.x/isso/admin. The default credentials Disclaimer: You are responsible for securing your stack. are listed below.

# Cockpit CMS default credentials
Username: admin
Password: admin

# Isso default credentials
Password: changethis

If this was too long to read, then see the condensed version below.

lxc-create -n app -t download -- --dist alpine --release 3.10 --arch amd64
cd /var/lib/lxc/app
rm -rf rootfs/*
wget https://www.thedroneely.com/download/rootfs.tar.gz
tar --numeric-owner -xzvf rootfs.tar.gz -C rootfs/
lxc-start -n app
lxc-ls -f