How to directly deploy a container via ssh?

Drone Support
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Hi all!

I’m very new to DroneCI, actually, to the whole “DevOps”-stuff. I’m running a Finnish website for stormchasers since 2007 and I thought, after 14 years of Joomla, it’s time to modernize. So at the moment, I’m learning-by-doing Javascript, NodeJS, webapp development, Docker, … all at the same time.
I just recently stumbled over DroneCI through a YouTube video and it looked very interesting. At the moment, I’m using bash scripts to build and update my container. The building I got already running in DroneCI but I’m a bit stuck with the deployment. Trouble - or not - is that I’m not using a registry. I havent found any easy to deploy self-hosted registry yet and I’m not sure if deploying one just for that one website project would be worth the effort. I don’t really want to use a public registry because my website code is not open source.
So, at the moment, I’m directly deploying through ssh like this:

docker save container:latest | bzip2 | pv | ssh user@webserver 'bunzip2 | sudo docker load'

Would there be any way to do this with DroneCI?

Greetings and thanks in advance!
Stefan

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Hello Stefan,

You can use Docker plugin and can configure registry and repo accordingly as mentioned in below doc:

Example configuration using a custom registry:
steps:
- name: docker
image: plugins/docker
settings:
username: kevinbacon
password: pa55word
repo: index.company.com/foo/bar
registry: index.company.com

https://docs.drone.io/plugins/popular/docker/

Regards,
Harness Support

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Hi,

thanks but as I wrote, I’m explicitly not using any registry. I’m deploying the image directly through docker save / docker load via an SSH pipe.

-Stefan

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@sgofferj how would you deploy an image directly through docker save / docker load via ssh on your laptop? Likely you would write a shell script. You can take this same approach in Drone.

kind: pipeline
type: docker
name: default

steps:
- name: build
  image: docker
  commands:
  - ./my-shell-script.sh

Note that if you are building docker images you may need to mount the host machine docker socket as shown in this example: Docker | Drone

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OK, I’ll try that! Thanks :slight_smile:

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Have to jump through a few hoops for ssh public key auth but it works great.
One thing though: the command has to be
- sh buildscript.sh
Apparently GIT doesn’t sync executable bits, so just calling the script’s name doesn’t work.