[Haskell-cafe] Deploy Haskell application

[Tom Nielsen]

Not sure what you mean - cabal doesn't do any deployment, or at least I
have not found a useful way of making it do so. In our case the deployment
is done by running apt-get update && apt-get install on the server.

Tom




On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Corentin Dupont <corentin.dupont at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for your response!
> Is there a way to ask Cabal to just deploy the resources and not compile
> everything?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Tom Nielsen <tanielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We package up the executables and other files into a Debain .deb package
>> using fpm after running cabal. Here is an example Makefile which runs
>> cabal, creates the debian package and adds it to our apt server:
>>
>> https://github.com/openbrainsrc/debcd/blob/master/Makefile
>>
>> This is run by our CI server after every commit to GitHub.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Vo Minh Thu <noteed at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> These days, an increasingly popular solution to package an application
>>> with its dependencies is to use Docker. You can build the Docker image
>>> locally and push it to a Docker registry and retrieve it on your
>>> remote machine, or you can dump it as a tarball and load it on your
>>> remote machine.
>>>
>>> You have different ways to create the Docker image, one of which would
>>> be similar to pushing your Haskell binary to your remote machine. That
>>> way is simply to compile your exectuable locally, and copy it to the
>>> remote machine with is assets if any (you might even move it to a
>>> .cabal directory as if it was installed through `cabal install`). By
>>> default your executable will be statically linked, except for libgmp
>>> that you have to install on the remote machine.
>>>
>>> I recommand you look into Docker. You will be able to e-use its
>>> knowledge to package increasingly complex applications (that might
>>> have more numerous dependencies that you wouldn't have to manage on
>>> the host).
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Thu
>>>
>>> 2014-06-11 12:24 GMT+02:00 Corentin Dupont <corentin.dupont at gmail.com>:
>>> > Hi guys!
>>> > Is there a procedure to deploy a Haskell application?
>>> > I have an Amazon EC2 micro instance to run my application, but it's
>>> way too
>>> > small to compile it using cabal (compilation takes half a day
>>> rouhgly), so I
>>> > compile it on my computer.
>>> > Is there a convenient way to bundle the executable with the resources
>>> and
>>> > ship it to the server?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> > Corentin
>>> >
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