How-to Guides

Deploying Your Applications

• operations Scaling Node.js

  How to scale up your Node application in Cloud 66

• customization manifest Building your manifest file

  How to build a manifest file for your application

• Troubleshooting Troubleshooting server issues

  How to diagnose and fix some common issues that may cause your servers to be unreachable or unresponsive.

• customization Examples of deploy hooks

  Some working examples of deploy hooks in action

• update upgrade Applying system upgrades

  Applying upgrades and updates to your application

• firewall Using Cloud 66 through a firewall

  How the ensure that Cloud 66 can reach your servers via your firewall and security systems.

• update upgrade Managing custom packages

  Adding and managing custom Ubuntu packages on your application servers

• customization Customizing your Node.js configuration

  How to customize the deployment configuration of your Node.js application via Cloud 66

• customization Using ConfigStore

  How to use ConfigStore to centralize and manage config values

• websocket Configuring custom ports

  How to configure custom ports for a Cloud 66 Node application

• customization Customizing your Nginx configuration

  How to customize the configuration of the Node Nginx proxy

• Scaling addins Configuring HAProxy

  Configuring HAProxy to work with your application

• Logs Managing log files

  Managing your application logs

• customization Deploying applications in parallel

  How to deploy an application across multiple servers simultaneously

• operations Using redeployment hooks

  How to use redeployment hooks to achieve automated deployments

• high-availability Migrating your application between servers

  How to move your entire application to a new server or a new data center

• customization Configuring redirects through Nginx

  How to configure redirects for your application using Nginx

• high-availability Using failover groups

  How to set up and use a failover group

• operations Using the deployment timeline

  How to use the deployment timeline to track and roll back deployments

• operations Using your own servers with Cloud 66

  How to use your own (self-managed) servers with Cloud 66 for Node

• debugging logs Setting up custom LiveLog files

  How to configure custom logs for your applications

• customization Using symbolic links

  How to use Ubuntu symbolic links with Cloud 66

• high-availability Configuring multi-region applications

  An overview of configuring your application to run across different regions

• customization Adding modules to Nginx

  How to add custom modules to Nginx in Cloud 66

• high-availability Zero-downtime deployments

  How to minimize downtime during deployments

• security Deploying behind a gateway server

  How to deploy your application to a DMZ

• update upgrade Querying server metadata

  How to query a server's metadata via command line or deploy hook

• operations server How to delete your Physical Servers

  Physical servers deletion from your cloud

• websocket Configuring WebSocket

  How to configure Websocket for a Cloud 66 Node application

• notifications server Managing required restarts

  Cloud 66 server restart notifications

• operations Tagging components

  How to tag infrastructural and configuration components in Cloud 66 for Node

• customization Configuring for multi-tenancy

  Configuring multiple Cloud 66 applications to use a single server

Using Databases

• MongoDB MySQL PostgreSQL Redis Customize your database configuration

  Customize your Database Configuration on Cloud 66 Node stacks

• database Managing databases with Cloud 66

  Deploying and managing your database with Cloud 66

• mysql postgresql sqlite Replacing SQLite

  How to replace your default SQLite database with MySQL or Postgres

• customization Seeding your database

  How to add seed data to your database

• debugging Connecting to database servers

  How to connect directly to your database servers

• backups Managing database backups

  How to manage the database backups in Cloud 66 for Rails

• customization postgresql Installing PostGIS

  How to install PostGIS on your Postgres database

• customization Sharing databases between applications

  How to share databases between applications in Cloud 66 for Rails

• mysql Uninstalling MySQL

  How to uninstall the default MySQL from your servers

• customization high-availability Using production data in staging

  How to set up your staging environment to use production data

• MongoDB MySQL PostgreSQL Redis Configuring database replication

  How to set up replication between your databases

• databases encryption security Encrypting databases

  How to encrypt a database

Securing Your Applications

• security Configuring Let's Encrypt

  How to configure Let's Encrypt with Cloud 66 for Node

• haproxy ssl Multi-certificate SSL for HAProxy

  How to configure multi-certificate SSL for HAProxy in Cloud 66 for Rails

• nginx Enabling basic authentication via Nginx

  How to enable Nginx's basic HTTP authentication

• nginx Enabling IP access control via Nginx

  How to restrict access to your application by IP address using Nginx

• nginx ssl Enabling strong SSL security on Nginx

  How to adjust SSL cipher settings in Nginx

• ssl Manually adding an SSL cert to Nginx

  How to add an SSL certificate to your application

• ssl Enabling SSL termination on load balancers

  How to enable automatic SSL termination on load balancers in Cloud 66 for Node

• ssl Disabling older versions of TLS

  How to disable support for older versions of TLS

Add-ins for your Applications

• Add ins An introduction to Add-ins

  Extend the functionality of your application with add-ins

• database Using the database backup add-in

  Managed and unmanaged database backups

• Add in Scaling Using the load balancer Add-in

  Adding a load balancer to your application

• Add in Using the Server Jobs Add-in

  How to automate shell commands on your server(s) via Cloud 66 for Node

• Add in Security Using the SSL certificate Add-in

  SSL certificate add-in

• Add in Customization Using the custom server add-in

  Custom servers within the Cloud 66 ecosystem

• Add in Using the Redis Add-in

  Add Redis to your application with ease

• Add in Using the Elasticsearch Add-in

  Add Elasticsearch to your application with ease

• Add ins Logs Using the Filebeat Add-in

  Simple web-based log analysis service for your servers

• Add in Using the GlusterFS Add-in

  Add GlusterFS to your application with ease

• Add in Using the Memcached Add-in

  Add Memcached to your application with ease

• Add in Using the RabbitMQ Add-in

  Add RabbitMQ to your application with ease

• Add in Using the InfluxDB Add-in

  Add InfluxDB to your application with ease

• Add ins Logs Using the Logentries Add-in

  Simple web-based log analysis service for your servers