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dim glade Nov 1, 2023, 3:23 AM

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I am running a website with a nodejs backend and I want to have it so that once it deploys it goes to port 5000. I have gotten it to deploy but I can't access the port. Btw the server only supports ipv6.

ruby arch Nov 1, 2023, 3:24 AM

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Are you running it inside CI/CD? I'm confused about the gitlab-runner comment 🙂

dim glade Nov 5, 2023, 9:54 PM

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ruby arch Are you running it inside CI/CD? I'm confused about the gitlab-runner comment 🙂

Yes I am

ruby arch Nov 5, 2023, 9:56 PM

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Are you running the website within the CI/CD runner? If so, is it a docker container or something? even with IPv6, localhost:5000 should hit your local run

dim glade Nov 5, 2023, 9:57 PM

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I'm not sure if it's in a docker or not

ruby arch Nov 5, 2023, 9:58 PM

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OK, you'll want to figure out how the server is being deployed. If you can't access it on localhost:5000, it's likely running as a service in the CI/CD pipeline. If it is, check out the name attribute of that service, and you should be able to access it using the <name>:5000 DNS entry. For example, if the name of the service is myservicename, you'd access it at myservicename:5000

dim glade Nov 5, 2023, 10:00 PM

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how can i find the name attribute?

ruby arch Nov 5, 2023, 10:02 PM

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check out the name attribute here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#services

CI/CD YAML syntax reference | GitLab

dim glade Nov 5, 2023, 10:07 PM

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This is my .gitlab-ci.yml
Where would I put the alias or name attribute exactly?

 - deploy
deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - npm install
    - echo <password> | sudo -S forever app.js      
  image: npm:latest

ruby arch Nov 5, 2023, 10:07 PM

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ok, it looks like it's not a service, there's no "service" keyword

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is npm install running your server?

dim glade Nov 5, 2023, 10:08 PM

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No npm install runs installs the packages

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and then forever app.js runs the script

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in jobs i can see:

ruby arch Nov 5, 2023, 10:08 PM

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ok, so that's what's running it then?

dim glade Nov 5, 2023, 10:08 PM

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forever app.js is yes

ruby arch Nov 5, 2023, 10:09 PM

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So is a follow-up job attempting to connect to it then?

dim glade Nov 5, 2023, 10:09 PM

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there is only one job

ruby arch Nov 5, 2023, 10:10 PM

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got it - so what do you mean when you "deploy" then? It looks like you're just running the site within the context of the CI/CD job. As soon as the job ends, the site will be shut down and go offline.

dim glade Nov 5, 2023, 10:10 PM

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oh

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so how would i deploy it so it keeps running?

ruby arch Nov 5, 2023, 10:12 PM

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You need to find a hosting service (something like a public cloud provider, to host it on

dim glade Nov 5, 2023, 10:13 PM

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i already have the gitlab-runner so that it runs on a vps i bought

ruby arch Nov 5, 2023, 10:14 PM

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OK, if you've bought a VPS already, you can have your job push your app.js package to the VPS, then you can start it on your VPS

dim glade Nov 5, 2023, 10:14 PM

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is there anyway I can automate this using gitlab?

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so that if i push to my main branch if autodeploys to the vps

ruby arch Nov 5, 2023, 10:16 PM

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yes, of course. The easiest way is to treat your VPS as a remote server, and have your gitlab job use something like SCP to upload the app.js, then SSH into your VPS and start the app.js package

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You would want to have it run "headless", so that when your SSH session disconnected, it didn't stop the process

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Something like "nohup" tends to be good for this

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I would recommend figuring out how to do it manually first, then you can mimic the steps needed in your CI job

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