Deployment problems about cabot

[romankor]

Has anyone look at that even ? Is that project still alive ?

[dbuxton]

Hi @Pfeffer-Kopf it looks like you're having a generic Django issue rather than an issue with the project per se. I suspect there's a problem with your Django installation. Try nuking the virtualenv and starting again?

The installer should work on AWS but it's only tested on digitalocean - you might want as an alternative to try https://github.com/shoonoise/cabot-docker which is a dockerized version.

[romankor]

I have the same problem on digital ocean. I have not really experience with python or django and it makes it very hard for me to fix that issue manually , I really wanted to use that awesome product , maybe you guys can give it a spin a try to deploy it on fresh ubuntu 12.04

[dbuxton]

I just tried it using the instructions from this page http://cabotapp.com/qs/quickstart.html and it works for me (although the precise arguments to tugboat have changed, I got it to work with tugboat create cabot --size=66 --image=3101045 --region=1)

I wasn't able to replicate the issue you are describing; I don't know what's up but I'm afraid this doesn't look like a Cabot-specific issue...

[romankor]

this image exists only in region 3 ... so --region=3

[romankor]

Guys that is pretty frustrating , i cant imagine that the problems are somehow connected to me specifically and we really wonted to use your product in our company.
i have created a new instance with tugboat create cabot --size=66 --image=3101045 --region=3

Here is full log of the deploy process : https://gist.github.com/romankor/e1b39e2d26185da2b17b

Thanks in advance

[dbuxton]

Hi @romankor - understand your frustration with not having a one-command deploy mechanism (fwiw that is something that #41 is trying to solve) - I don't exactly know what's wrong here but I notice that you're running the fab deploy command as root - in the demo provision/deploy workflow we have, we provision the servers as root but in that process create an ubuntu user and use that for fab deploy.

I do appreciate that's a weird thing to do and it's not how we ideally would, it's simply a result of our own legacy workflow stuff where we used to use ubuntu for everything (on EC2) and then moved to a more complex mixture of platforms, many of which give you root by default.

Try the process following the exact sequence of steps on the Quickstart - especially paying attention to usernames for ssh - and let me know if that works.

I'm sure you can appreciate that we want to make this project as useful as possible to others but it's a real tool that we built for real internal use at Arachnys and so some deployment stuff could definitely be better/clearer.

[romankor]

Ok thanks , that is all highly unusual !
Now i want to run the deploy though the ubuntu user and i am being asked for a password , although i create the droplet on digital ocean with an ssh-key and without any passwords ? Do you have any idea what it might be ?

[dbuxton]

I'm sorry I really can't help you debug random SSH issues. You need to make sure that your local ssh key is in the ubuntu user's .ssh/authorized_keys, which fab provision should do for you (https://github.com/arachnys/cabot/blob/master/bin/setup_dependencies.sh#L24) in order to have passwordless login.

[romankor]

I somehow managed to install it on a EC2 instance , although all the upstart processes where not working , and i had to manually start the processes.