VM Dependencies

KtSaaS is built to run well on an Ubuntu VM (either self-hosted or on an affordable VPS).

Assuming you've setup a fresh Ubuntu VM, what's left to do before your new KtSaaS app can go live?

Follow the following steps to provision necessary dependencies.

Then clone your project repo, and follow the rest of the steps in the deploy guide.

Dependencies

Update existing packages

apt update && apt upgrade

Docker

Install

Use the latest install instructions for Ubuntu from Docker's website.

Non-root user privileges

To avoid being forced to use sudo for all docker commands, give the non-root user Docker privileges, from Docker docs.

sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker

Docker Swarm

KtSaaS uses Docker Swarm as the primary deploy engine.

Fresh Docker installs will require the following steps to setup and join a new Docker Swarm.

docker swarm init

git & gh

Git and the Github CLI make it easy to pull your latest application code down and deploy. Skip this if you are using a different setup for source control.

apt install git

Follow the latest install instructions from the Github CLI docs.