Bootstrap Piku onto a fresh Ubuntu server. Piku lets you do git push deploys to your own server.

The easiest way to get started is using the get script:

ssh root@YOUR-FRESH-UBUNTU-SERVER
curl https://piku.github.io/get | sh

Or you can do the steps manually yourself:

ssh root@YOUR-FRESH-UBUNTU-SERVER
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/piku/piku-bootstrap/master/piku-bootstrap > piku-bootstrap
chmod 755 piku-bootstrap
./piku-bootstrap first-run

Use ./piku-bootstrap first-run --no-interactive to suppress the first-run prompt, for example if you are running this in a provisioning script.

Warning: Please use a fresh Ubuntu server as this script will modify system level settings. See piku.yml to see what will be changed.

The first time it is run piku-bootstrap will install itself into /root/.piku-bootstrap on the server and set up a virtualenv there with the dependencies it requires. It will only need to do this once.

The script will display a usage message and you can then bootstrap your server:

./piku-bootstrap install

Once you're done head over to the Piku documentation to see how to deploy your first app.

Installing other dependencies

piku-bootstrap uses Ansible internally and it comes with some extra built-in playbooks which you can use to bootstrap common components onto your piku server.

Use piku-bootstrap list-playbooks to show a list of built-in playbooks, and then to install one add it as an argument to the bootstrap command.

For example, to deploy postgres onto your server:

piku-bootstrap install postgres.yml

You can also use piku-bootstrap to run your own Ansible playbooks like this:

piku-bootstrap install ./myplaybook.yml