Installation ยป Production Rack

Digital Ocean

Please note that these are instructions for installing a Rack via the command line. The easiest way to install a Rack is with the Convox Web Console

Initial Setup

Terraform

Convox CLI

Environment

The following environment variables are required:

  • DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_ID
  • DIGITALOCEAN_SECRET_KEY
  • DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN

Create Token

Go to https://cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens and generate a new Personal Access Token.

  • DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN is the token you just created

Create Spaces Access Key

Go to https://cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens and generate a new Spaces Access Key.

  • DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_ID is the resulting Key
  • DIGITALOCEAN_SECRET_KEY is the Secret

Install Rack

$ convox rack install do <name> [param1=value1]...

Available Parameters

Name Default Description
node_type s-2vcpu-4gb Node instance type
region nyc3 Digital Ocean region
registry_disk 50Gi Registry disk size
syslog Forward logs to a syslog endpoint (e.g. tcp+tls://example.org:1234)