Provision

Provision a VPS for deploys. Any host that supports SSH can be used.

Syntax

$ vela provision <host>

Vela will provision a VPS for the application. The connection is made via SSH and the VPS is provisioned using the vela-provision script. After provisioning, the application can be deployed with the vela deploy command.

Stack

Vela sets up the following stack on the VPS:

• Caddy with automatic HTTPS
• Systemd for process management

Deploys are pushed to /srv/app on the VPS. Two processes are started with systemd: the Node server and the database.

Requirements

For HTTPS to be automatically provisioned on deploy, the VPS must have a public IP address and a domain must be pointed to the IP address. This enables Caddy to automatically provision HTTPS certificates.