Managing an Application¶
Track Application Changes¶
Deis Workflow tracks all changes to your application. Application changes are the result of either new application code
pushed to the platform (via git push deis master), or an update to application configuration (via deis config:set KEY=VAL).
Each time a build or config change is made to your application a new release is created. These release numbers increase monotonically.
You can see a record of changes to your application using deis releases:
$ deis releases
=== peachy-waxworks Releases
v4 3 minutes ago gabrtv deployed d3ccc05
v3 1 hour 17 minutes ago gabrtv added DATABASE_URL
v2 6 hours 2 minutes ago gabrtv deployed 7cb3321
v1 6 hours 2 minutes ago gabrtv deployed deis/helloworldRollback a Release¶
Deis Workflow also supports rolling back go previous releases. If buggy code or an errant configuration change is pushed to your application, you may rollback to a previously known, good release.
Note
All rollbacks create a new, numbered release. But will reference the build/code and configuration from the desired rollback point.
In this example, the application is currently running release v4. Using deis rollback v2 tells Workflow to deploy the
build and configuration that was used for release v2. This creates a new release named v5 whose contents are the source
and configuration from release v2:
$ deis releases
=== folksy-offshoot Releases
v4 4 minutes ago gabrtv deployed d3ccc05
v3 1 hour 18 minutes ago gabrtv added DATABASE_URL
v2 6 hours 2 minutes ago gabrtv deployed 7cb3321
v1 6 hours 3 minutes ago gabrtv deployed deis/helloworld
$ deis rollback v2
Rolled back to v2
$ deis releases
=== folksy-offshoot Releases
v5 Just now gabrtv rolled back to v2
v4 4 minutes ago gabrtv deployed d3ccc05
v3 1 hour 18 minutes ago gabrtv added DATABASE_URL
v2 6 hours 2 minutes ago gabrtv deployed 7cb3321
v1 6 hours 3 minutes ago gabrtv deployed deis/helloworldRun One-off Administration Tasks¶
Deis applications use one-off processes for admin tasks like database migrations and other commands that must run against the live application.
Use deis run to execute commands on the deployed application.
$ deis run 'ls -l'
Running `ls -l`...
total 28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 553 Dec 2 23:59 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 Dec 2 23:59 Procfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Dec 2 23:59 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1622 Dec 2 23:59 pom.xml
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 2 23:59 src
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Dec 2 23:59 system.properties
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 3 00:00 targetShare an Application¶
Use deis perms:create to allow another Deis user to collaborate on your application.
$ deis perms:create otheruser
Adding otheruser to peachy-waxworks collaborators... doneUse deis perms to see who an application is currently shared with, and deis perms:remove to remove a collaborator.
Note
Collaborators can do anything with an application that its owner can do, except delete the application.
When working with an application that has been shared with you, clone the original repository and add Deis' git remote
entry before attempting to git push any changes to Deis.
$ git clone https://github.com/deis/example-java-jetty.git
Cloning into 'example-java-jetty'... done
$ cd example-java-jetty
$ git remote add -f deis ssh://git@local3.deisapp.com:2222/peachy-waxworks.git
Updating deis
From deis-controller.local:peachy-waxworks
* [new branch] master -> deis/masterApplication Maintenance¶
Maintenance mode for applications is useful to perform certain migrations or upgrades during which we don't want to serve client requests. Deis Workflow supports maintenance mode for an app during which the access to the app is blocked. Blocking access to the application means all the requests to the app are served with an error code of 503 and a static maintenance page by the router but the app will still be running and one-off commands can still be run. Currently the maintenance page is not configurable and is present as part of the router component.
To enable maintenance mode for app, use deis maintenance:
$ deis maintenance:on
Enabling maintenance for drafty-zaniness... doneThis will make the router answer all requests to the application with a 503, although the app is still running. To disable maintenance mode:
$ deis maintenance:off
Disabling maintenance for drafty-zaniness... doneApplication Troubleshooting¶
Applications deployed on Deis Workflow treat logs as event streams. Deis Workflow aggregates stdout and stderr
from every Container making it easy to troubleshoot problems with your application.
Use deis logs to view the log output from your deployed application.
$ deis logs | tail
Dec 3 00:30:31 ip-10-250-15-201 peachy-waxworks[web.5]: INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler{/,null}
Dec 3 00:30:31 ip-10-250-15-201 peachy-waxworks[web.8]: INFO:oejs.Server:jetty-7.6.0.v20120127
Dec 3 00:30:31 ip-10-250-15-201 peachy-waxworks[web.5]: INFO:oejs.AbstractConnector:Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:10005
Dec 3 00:30:31 ip-10-250-15-201 peachy-waxworks[web.6]: INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler{/,null}
Dec 3 00:30:31 ip-10-250-15-201 peachy-waxworks[web.7]: INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler{/,null}
Dec 3 00:30:31 ip-10-250-15-201 peachy-waxworks[web.6]: INFO:oejs.AbstractConnector:Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:10006
Dec 3 00:30:31 ip-10-250-15-201 peachy-waxworks[web.8]: INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler{/,null}
Dec 3 00:30:31 ip-10-250-15-201 peachy-waxworks[web.7]: INFO:oejs.AbstractConnector:Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:10007
Dec 3 00:30:31 ip-10-250-15-201 peachy-waxworks[web.8]: INFO:oejs.AbstractConnector:Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:10008