How to setup Dokku

Let's jump into it... fast. You got here because you want to setup Dokku and the other ways don't work... let's goooo

I will setup for Dokku only

1. Point your domain to the VPS of choice

• Spin up new VPS server here:
  • Digital Ocean
  • Linode
• Buy a domain from Namecheap/Godaddy for 0.99\$ for first-time accounts

• Create an A record to point to your VPS Ip
  

   - Type -> A
   - Name -> *.your-domain-name.com
   - Value -> <your.vps.ip>
  

• Just a note pick a VPS server with 1GB RAM memory that will probably cost you \$5

1. SSH into your server through IP and pass or SSH key if you provided one.

ssh username@ip-address

1. Change the server hostname

hostnamectl set-hostname <your-domain.com>

echo "<your.vps.ip> <your-domain.com> dokku" >> /etc/hosts

1. So we gonna use a script to get this thing installed, we will head over to Package cloud to get the script.

• The script was created Dokku and they one for each Linux os

  

1. Let's run that script on our Ubuntu server

   curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/dokku/dokku/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
   sudo apt-get install dokku

• Select Yes when this window pops up
  

• Check if dokku is installed by typing id dokku

• Start the Dokku service
  

    sytemctl status dokku-installer.service

• Confirm the service is running by typing systemctl is-enabled dokku-installer.service the result is enabled if it's running

• Let's install core dependencies
  

    dokku plugin:install-dependencies --core

1. Install docker

   wget -nv -O - https://get.docker.com/ | sh

Check if Docker is installed by running

   docker version

    Client:
    Version:           18.06.0-ce
    API version:       1.38
    Go version:        go1.10.3
    Git commit:        0ffa825
    Built:             Wed Jul 18 19:09:54 2018
    OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
    Experimental:      false
    Server:
    Engine:
    Version: 18.06.0-ce
    API version: 1.38 (minimum version 1.12)
    Go version: go1.10.3
    Git commit: 0ffa825
    Built: Wed Jul 18 19:07:56 2018
    OS/Arch: linux/amd64
    Experimental: false

Versions may vary

1. Configure Dokku by visiting your IP on your browser

   • Remember the hostname we provided step 3 just paste on the Hostname input and check the virtualized host checkbox.
   • The value for the input of the virtualized hostname will now be.

    http://<app-name>.<your-host-name.com>
   

• Click on Finish Setup you will be redirected to the dokku docs.

Conclusion

In the next Bits I will look into more Dokku or something else.