Galaxy
Deploying Rocket.Chat on Galaxy
Galaxy is a platform-as-a-service built specifically for Meteor apps. Built using the latest Docker and AWS cloud infrastructure.
Get Rocket.Chat code
Download the source code first to be able to deploy to Galaxy
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git clone https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.git
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cd Rocket.Chat
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Set your MongoDB URL
You will need a Mongo database configured for your Rocket.Chat application, for better performance as meteor hosting uses AWS it is advice you setup your database in the same AWS region.
Create a settings.json file to set environmental variable as follows:
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{
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"galaxy.meteor.com": {
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"env": {
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"MONGO_URL": "mongodb://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<database>?replicaSet=rs01",
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"MONGO_OPLOG_URL": "mongodb://<oplog_username>:<oplog_password>@<db_server_host>:<db_server_port>/<oplog_db_name>?authSource=admin&replicaSet=rs01",
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"ROOT_URL": "...",
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"MAIL_URL": "...",
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​
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}
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}
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}
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Deploy to Galaxy servers
Execute this from the root of the source code:
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DEPLOY_HOSTNAME=[region] meteor deploy [hostname] --settings [filepath.json]
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- region is ‘galaxy.meteor.com’ for US East, ‘eu-west-1.galaxy.meteor.com’ for EU West, and ‘ap-southeast-2.galaxy.meteor.com’ for Asia-Pacific.
- hostname is the fully qualified domain name where you’re planning to host your application (using in the .meteorapp.com hostname format, in this example).
- filepath.json is the path to your settings file (for example, ‘./settings.json’).
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