The proxy can be enabled via the config:
```
proxy:
enabled: true
hosts:
- 10.0.0.1
- 10.0.0.2
```
This will enable the proxy and cause it to be run on the hosts listed
under `hosts`, after running `kamal proxy reboot`.
Enabling the proxy disables `kamal traefik` commands and replaces them
with `kamal proxy` ones. However only the marked hosts will run the
kamal-proxy container, the rest will run Traefik as before.
Add env files back in for secrets - hides them from process lists and
allows you to pick up the latest env file when running
`kamal app exec` without reusing.
Aliases are defined in the configuration file under the `aliases` key.
The configuration is a map of alias name to command. When we run the
command the we just do a literal replacement of the alias with the
string.
So if we have:
```yaml
aliases:
console: app exec -r console -i --reuse "rails console"
```
Then running `kamal console -r workers` will run the command
```sh
$ kamal app exec -r console -i --reuse "rails console" -r workers
```
Because of the order Thor parses the arguments, this allows us to
override the role from the alias command.
There might be cases where we need to munge the command a bit more but
that would involve getting into Thor command parsing internals,
which are complicated and possibly subject to change.
There's a chance that your aliases could conflict with future built-in
commands, but there's not likely to be many of those and if it happens
you'll get a validation error when you upgrade.
Thanks to @dhnaranjo for the idea!
Allow blocks prefixed with `x-` in the configuration as a place to
declare reusable blocks with YAML anchors and aliases.
Borrowed from the Docker Compose configuration file format -
https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-spec/blob/main/spec.md#extension
Thanks to @ruyrocha for the suggestion.
Validate the Kamal configuration giving useful warning on errors.
Each section of the configuration has its own config class and a YAML
file containing documented example configuration.
You can run `kamal docs` to see the example configuration, and
`kamal docs <section>` to see the example configuration for a specific
section.
The validation matches the configuration to the example configuration
checking that there are no unknown keys and that the values are of
matching types.
Where there is more complex validation - e.g for envs and servers, we
have custom validators that implement those rules.
Additonally the configuration examples are used to generate the
configuration documentation in the kamal-site repo.
You generate them by running:
```
bundle exec bin/docs <kamal-site-checkout>
```
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.
Docker does not respect the .dockerignore file when building from a tar.
Instead by default we'll make a local clone into a tmp directory and
build from there. Subsequent builds will reset the clone to match the
checkout.
Compared to building directly in the repo, we'll have reproducible
builds.
Compared to using a git archive:
1. .dockerignore is respected
2. We'll have faster builds - docker can be smarter about caching the
build context on subsequent builds from a directory
To build from the repo directly, set the build context to "." in the
config.
If there are uncommitted changes, we'll warn about them either being
included or ignored depending on whether we build from the clone.
Allow hosts to be tagged so we can have host specific env variables.
We might want host specific env variables for things like datacenter
specific tags or testing GC settings on a specific host.
Right now you either need to set up a separate role, or have the app
be host aware.
Now you can define tag env variables and assign those to hosts.
For example:
```
servers:
- 1.1.1.1
- 1.1.1.2: tag1
- 1.1.1.2: tag2
- 1.1.1.3: [ tag1, tag2 ]
env_tags:
tag1:
ENV1: value1
tag2:
ENV2: value2
```
The tag env supports the full env format, allowing you to set secret and
clear values.
If you are deploying more than one destination to a host, the latest
tags will conflict, so we'll append the destination to the tag.
The latest tag is used when booting the app or exec-ing a new container.
If a deploy doesn't complete on a host for all roles then we should
probably not be using it, so move the tagging to the end of the boot
process.
Building directly from a checkout will pull in uncommitted files to or
more sneakily files that are git ignored, but not docker ignored.
To avoid this, we'll add an option to build from a git archive of HEAD
instead. Docker doesn't provide a way to build directly from a git
repo, so instead we create a tarball of the current HEAD with git
archive and pipe it into the build command.
When building from a git archive, we'll still display the warning about
uncommitted changes, but we won't add the `_uncommitted_...` suffix to
the container name as they won't be included in the build.
Perhaps this should be the default, but we'll leave that decision for
now.
Secret and clear env variables have different lifecycles. The clear ones
are part of the repo, so it makes sense to always deploy them with the
rest of the repo.
The secret ones are external so we can't be sure that they are up to
date, therefore they require an explicit push via `envify` or `env push`.
We'll keep the env file, but now it just contains secrets. The clear
values are passed directly to `docker run`.
By default we keep 5 containers around for rollback. The containers
don't take much space, but the images for them can.
Make the number of containers to retain configurable, either in the
config with the `retain_containers` setting on the command line
with the `--retain` option.
