📕Deploy a NestJs App to Clouddley Triggr
Learn how to deploy a Nestjs app to Triggr.
In this article, we'll learn how to deploy a Nestjs application on Triggr. Before that, let’s talk about what Clouddley Triggr is. Clouddley Triggr is a zero downtime application deployment tool that auto-detects your runtime and deploys your application to your server, virtual machines, and bare metal. Let's begin!
Prerequisites
A Clouddley account.
A Nestjs application.
A virtual machine in a Cloud platform or bare metal server.
Deploy the Nest.js Application
Optimize your codebase for deployment
For your application to deploy successfully on Triggr, you need to create a
Procfilein the root folder of your project with the following contents:
This differs depending on which package manager you used for your app creation.
web: npm run start:prod
Deploy a Nest.js Application
Accessing Clouddley Triggr
Open your web browser, log in to your Clouddley account
Navigate to Triggr and click on Add App
Step 1: Configure Git
Choose the version control platform your code is hosted on, either GitHub or Bitbucket. For this tutorial, we will be using Github.
Click on the Select username/organization dropdown and click on Add username/organization to connect your GitHub user or organization account.
Select your repository and the branch.
Click on NEXT
Step 2: Configure VM
To configure your VM, insert your VM username, its hostname or IP address, and the VM port for ssh access.
Download the public key to your local machine.
Run the command provided in your local machine allowing Triggr to connect to your virtual machine.
ssh-copy-id -f -i ~/path/to/downloaded/Publickey username@ipaddress
Click on Verify. This verifies the connection
Click on NEXT
Step 3: Configure app settings
Insert the name of the application and its port.
The firewall of the virtual machine should allow access to the application port.
You can add environment variables by adding the key-value pair in the environment variable section and clicking on save or adding it by clicking on the + button.
To configure the notification settings of the application, switch the disabled button in the notification section and select which event(failed, timeout, or success) you want to be notified of.
Input your Email address.
Click on Create App
Step 4: Test and Verify the app
Upon app creation, your app appears on the Triggr dashboard.
After the app deployment is complete, the app status changes from
deployingtorunning
Click on the application's URL, which opens the deployed application in your browser.
You can test the application functionalities.
You have successfully deployed your nest.js application on Triggr.
You can navigate to deployments, click on the icon in the actions column to view logs, download your logs, and restart the build if needed.
Conclusion
Congratulations🎉 on successfully deploying your Nest.js application to Clouddley Triggr. You can find the source code of the application here. You can also check out how different frameworks can be deployed on Clouddley Triggr in our how-to guides.
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