Metabase Setup

Prerequisites:

• Install Dokku on your server
• It's helpful to setup an alias to make running commands on dokku from your own computer

$ alias dokku='ssh -t dokku@your-ip'

Download Metabase jar

Get the most recent JAR file from: http://www.metabase.com/start/jar.html

$ git add metabase.jar
$ git commit -am 'Add v... of metabase'

Create application on dokku

dokku apps:create metabase

# Link Databases

# install postgres if it's not available yet
dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-postgres.git postgres

# Metabase DB
dokku postgres:create metabase
dokku postgres:link metabase metabase

# Take the DATABASE URL from above and run
dokku config:set metabase MB_DB_CONNECTION_URI=<url from earlier> MB_JETTY_PORT=5000 MB_DB_TYPE=postgres BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-jvm-common.git

# Link any interesting database from other dokku containers
dokku mysql:link your-other-dokku-app metabase
# Note the urls and add them to the metabase dashboard.

Deploy

$ git remote add dokku dokku@your-dokku-host.com:metabase
$ git commit -am 'deploy'
$ git push dokku master

Updating Metabase

• Download the new jar from Metabase and replace the old jar.

$ git add metabase.jar
$ git commit -m 'Upgrade to v...'
$ git push dokku master

You may have to wait a few moments for migrations to run. To check on the progress run the following commnad

$ dokku logs metabase

Source

https://medium.com/@sndyrgrs/how-to-run-metabase-on-dokku-dffdfe1ef442#.hby06m5lm