This allows the user to make any necessary configuration changes to
Docker before setting up any containers, allowing those configuration
changes to take effect from the outset.
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.
If the app container is down or not responding then traefik will return
a 404 response code. This is not ideal as it suggests a client rather
than a server problem.
To fix this, we'll define a catch all route that always returns a 502.
This is not ideal as this route would take priority over a shorter route
with priorty 1.
TODO: up the priority of the app route.
The env check is not needded anymore as all the commands rely on the
env files having already been created remotely.
The only place the env is needed is when running `kamal env push` and
that will still raise an apropriate error.
When calling `kamal app exec` for new non interactive containers, run
the command per role on each server and include the role config
including the environment.
Fixes: https://github.com/basecamp/kamal/issues/492
Adding -T to the copy command ensures that the files are copied at the
same level into the target directory whether it exists or not.
That allows us to drop the `/*` which was not picking up hidden files.
Fixes: https://github.com/basecamp/kamal/issues/465
Kamal needs images to have the service label so it can track them for
pruning. Images built by Kamal will have the label, but externally built
ones may not.
Without it images will build up over time. The worst case is an outage
if all the hosts disks fill up at the same time.
We'll add a check for the label and halt if it is not there.
An interrupted deployment can leave older containers lying around. To
ensure they are cleaned up subsequently, stop stale containers during
deployments instead of just reporting them.
During deployments both the old and new containers will be active for a
small period of time. There also may be lagging requests for older CSS
and JS after the deployment.
This can lead to 404s if a request for old assets hits a new container
or visa-versa.
This PR makes sure that both sets of assets are available throughout the
deployment from before the new version of the app is booted.
This can be configured by setting the asset path:
```yaml
asset_path: "/rails/public/assets"
```
The process is:
1. We extract the assets out of the container, with docker run, docker
cp, docker stop. Docker run sets the container command to "sleep" so
this needs to be available in the container.
2. We create an asset volume directory on the host for the new version
of the app on the host and copy the assets in there.
3. If there is a previous deployment we also copy the new assets into
its asset volume and copy the older assets into the new asset volume.
4. We start the new container mapping the asset volume over the top of
the container's asset path.
This means the both the old and new versions have replaced the asset
path with a volume containing both sets of assets and should be able
to serve any request during the deployment. The older assets will
continue to be available until the next deployment.
The go template was concatenating all the mounts into one line. It
happened to work because the mount we are interested was always first.
Fix it to output one mount per line instead.
When replacing a container currently we:
1. Boot the new container
2. Wait for it to become healthy
3. Stop the old container
Traefik will send requests to the old container until it notices that it
is unhealthy. But it may have stopped serving requests before that point
which can result in errors.
To get round that the new boot process is:
1. Create a directory with a single file on the host
2. Boot the new container, mounting the cord file into /tmp and
including a check for the file in the docker healthcheck
3. Wait for it to become healthy
4. Delete the healthcheck file ("cut the cord") for the old container
5. Wait for it to become unhealthy and give Traefik a couple of seconds
to notice
6. Stop the old container
The extra steps ensure that Traefik stops sending requests before the
old container is shutdown.
Setting env variables in the docker arguments requires having them on
the deploy host.
Instead we'll add two new commands `kamal env push` and
`kamal env delete` which will manage copying the environment as .env
files to the remote host.
Docker will pick up the file with `--env-file <path-to-file>`. Env files
will be stored under `<kamal run directory>/env`.
Running `kamal env push` will create env files for each role and
accessory, and traefik if required.
`kamal envify` has been updated to also push the env files.
By avoiding using `kamal envify` and creating the local and remote
secrets manually, you can now avoid accessing secrets needed
for the docker runtime environment locally. You will still need build
secrets.
One thing to note - the Docker doesn't parse the environment variables
in the env file, one result of this is that you can't specify multi-line
values - see https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/12997.
We maybe need to look docker config or docker secrets longer term to get
around this.
Hattip to @kevinmcconnell - this was all his idea.
