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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Donal McBreen
6568cef868 Replace Traefik with kamal-proxy
[kamal-proxy](https://github.com/basecamp/kamal-proxy) is a custom
minimal proxy designed specifically for Kamal.

It has some advantages over Traefik:
1. Imperative deployments - we tell it to switch from container A to
   container B, and it waits for container B to start then switches. No
   need to poll for health checks ourselves or mess around with forcing
   health checks to fail.
2. Support for multiple apps - as much as possible, configuration is
   supplied at runtime by the deploy command, allowing us to have
   multiple apps share a proxy without conflicting config.
3. First class support for Kamal operations - rather than trying to
   work out how to make Traefik do what we want, we can build features
   directly into the proxy, making configuration simpler and avoiding
   obscure errors
2024-05-28 15:31:56 +01:00
Donal McBreen
0efb5ccfff Remove the healthcheck step
To speed up deployments, we'll remove the healthcheck step.

This adds some risk to deployments for non-web roles - if they don't
have a Docker healthcheck configured then the only check we do is if
the container is running.

If there is a bad image we might see the container running before it
exits and deploy it. Previously the healthcheck step would have avoided
this by ensuring a web container could boot and serve traffic first.

To mitigate this, we'll add a deployment barrier. Until one of the
primary role containers passes its healthcheck, we'll keep the barrier
up and avoid stopping the containers on the non-primary roles.

It the primary role container fails its healthcheck, we'll close the
barrier and shut down the new containers on the waiting roles.

We also have a new integration test to check we correctly handle a
a broken image. This highlighted that SSHKit's default runner will
stop at the first error it encounters. We'll now have a custom runner
that waits for all threads to finish allowing them to clean up.
2024-05-20 12:18:30 +01:00
xiaohui
9a9a0914cd don't escape non-ascii characters in docker env file 2024-04-17 17:42:06 +08:00
Donal McBreen
72ace2bf0b Add an integration test for roles
Add an app with roles to the integration tests. We'll deploy two web
containers and one worker. The worker just sleeps, so we are testing
that the container has booted.
2024-03-21 13:30:53 +00:00