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Update your deployment

Although Websoft9 App Store templates quickly launch applications, they may not meet all user needs.

The platform allows dynamic update your deployment for customization.

Concept​

Update your deployment is the process to redeploy multi-containers applications. Since the Websoft9 application is based on Docker Compose, update deployment is equivalent to customizing a Compose project.

Docker Compose project is stored as git repository at Websoft9 Git, the related files includes:

  • .env file: environments for application
  • docker-compose.yml file: YAML configuration file all the services defined
  • src direcotry: configuration files or other startup file for application

Modify the items at these files and Redeploy application will take effective.

Get started updating your deployment​

Step 1: Go to edit repository​

  1. Login to Websoft9 Console and open the My Apps > Application Management > Compose

  2. Click the Go to edit repository button, it will skip to files browser page of Git repository

  3. Then you can edit any file you want

Step 2: Customized Configurations​

You can customized application by git repository file editing interface:

  • .env file: environments for application
  • docker-compose.yml file: YAML configuration file all the services defined
  • src direcotry: configuration files or other startup file for application

If want to modify environments beginning with W9_, you should familiar with Websoft9 App Store templates rules.

Step 3: Delete containers (optional)​

You can delete exist containers of application if you want to a fully new application:

  1. Login to Websoft9 Console, and click Containers menu

  2. Delete below resources

    • Delete all containers by Stack memu
    • Delete all container volumes by Volumes memu

Step 4: Rebuild the application services​

  1. Go to the Compose tab of application management of Websoft9 My Apps

  2. Click the Redeploy button and waiting for new services take effective

Troubleshoot​

Environments doesn't take effect?​

Description: When I change MYSQL_PASSWORD value at .env file of MySQL applicaton, it not take effect
Reason: This is normal, and the authors of the MySQL container designed it to be so

Orchestration file error modification?​

Description: I have wrong modification for .env or yml file, can I recover it?
Solution: Yes, all orchestration files based on git repository, you can recover by git restore

Pull images error when redeploy?​

You can try it again or pull images before redeploy by docker compose pull command on your server.