Maintenance

This shows you how to deploy CommCare Sync in steady state as well as some other useful tasks.

Steady-State Deploy

For existing environments you should get the relevant myproject-ansible-vault and myproject.pem files from a project team member and jump straight to deployment.

To deploy, run the following from your local machine.

ansible-playbook -i inventories/myproject commcare_sync.yml --limit myserver --vault-password-file ~/myproject-ansible-vault -vv --tags=deploy

You can also modify the fabric example in the app repository to deploy.

Other tasks

Some other things you might want to do on production.

Setting up passwordless SSH

Create .ssh directory in the user’s home and make sure to set the permissions to 755.

mkdir ~/.ssh
chmod 755 ~/.ssh

Add an authorized_keys file and make sure to set permissions to 700.

touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 700 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Working with Superset

In order to run any superset native commands (for example superset db upgrade) you must enter the superset environment and manually run the postactivate script.

source ~/www/.virtualenvs/superset/bin/activate
source ~/www/.virtualenvs/superset/bin/postactivate