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Deploying Rocket.Chat on OpenShift
This guide covers how to host Rocket.Chat on OpenShift Online Next Gen.
OpenShift Online Next Gen is a completely rewritten PaaS solution based on Docker and Kubernetes that allows developers to quickly develop, host and scale applications in a cloud environment. OpenShift provides a CLI based tool that allows managing your projects and applications.
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1. Login
First of all, we need to log in to OpenShift API URL to create our project. The command to log in to OpenShift Online Next Gen is shown below:
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# oc login https://api.preview.openshift.com --token=<api_token>
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You can find the API Token to login to OpenShift Online Next Gen in the about page of the Web console.
2. Create a project
After login to OpenShift Online Next Gen, we need to create a project to host our Rocket.Chat application:
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$ oc new-project rocket-chat
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3. Import the ImageStream and templates
Clone the Rocket.Chat GitHub repository and import the templates to your OpenShift project:
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# git clone https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
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# cd Rocket.Chat
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# oc create -f .openshift/rocket-chat-ephemeral.json
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# oc create -f .openshift/rocket-chat-persistent.json
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4. Create the app
Create the application using the newly created templated and pass the
MONGODB_DATABASE,MONGODB_USER and MONGODB_PASSWORD parameters:1
# oc new-app rocket-chat -p MONGODB_DATABASE=rocketchat -p MONGODB_USER=rocketchat-admin -p MONGODB_PASSWORD=rocketchat
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- Rocket.Chat uses a domain check code to verify the validity of the e-mail address. To disable it, run the following commands:
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# oc port-forward <mongodb_pod> 27017
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# mongo localhost:27017
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> use rocketchat
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> db.auth('rocketchat-admin','rocketchat')
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> db.rocketchat_settings.update({_id:'Accounts_UseDNSDomainCheck'},{$set:{value:false}})
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