We have a bigger application server which customers would like to have deployed locally.
It consists of an MySQL server database, a REDIS database, multiple Web servers for sub parts, a NGINX reverse proxy so that these web servers are reachable from Port 80 and a homegrown C++ server.
All sub parts (DB, Webservers, ...) have to be configured to be accessible by each other.
At the moment (for in house use) deployment and configuration is done by hand; but in order to roll it out to customers, we would like to have a Out-of-the-Box-Solution which gets assembled by some build script.
What would you suggest?
- Maintaining a VM which just gets configured and then deployed?
- Maintaining some installation script or package
- Something else?
Usually we would prefer 2. as it seems the more natural way and let the customer decide whether he wants to use a real server or a VM. Also sounds automatic creation of VMs rather time-expensive.
The Problems we face are the usually not-to-be-embedded-components like MySQL and NGINX. NGINX configuration is stored in /etc/nginx/. I don't think that .DEB-packages are allowed to overwrite foreign NGINX configuration nor is it a good practice. The same with MySQL.
It is also possible to embed MySQL/NGINX/Redis but this is not a trivial task.
