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DronaHQ self-hosted solution

DronaHQ self-hosted solution ensures that all access to your data is managed within your own cloud environment. It also provides the flexibility to control how DronaHQ is setup within your infrastructure, the ability to configure logging, scaling, and access to enable custom SAML SSO using providers like Okta and Active Directory.

Select a DronaHQ version number

• 1.0.0 - Released on 14/4/2022`

Releases are added maintained on DockerHub and on DronaHQ Community

Single Deployments

Machine Specs : Prerequisites

• Linux Virtual Machine
  • Ubuntu 20.04 or higher
• 2 vCPUs
• 8 GiB + of Memory
• 60 GiB + of Storage
• Networking Requirements for Initial Setup:
  • 80 (http): for connecting to the server from the browser
  • 443 (https): for connecting to the server from the browser
  • 22 (SSH): To allow you to SSH into your instance and configure it
  • 8080 (DronaHQ): This is the default port DronaHQ runs on

Deploy on Linux

1. Run the command git clone https://github.com/dronahq/self-hosted.git.

2. Run the command cd self-hosted to enter the cloned repository's directory.

3. Edit the docker-compose.yml file using VIM (or other text editor) to set the version of DronaHQ you want to install. To do this, replace X.Y.Z in image:dronahq/self-hosted:X.Y.Z with your desired version. See Select a DronaHQ version number to help you choose a version.

4. Run ./install.sh to install Docker and Docker Compose.

5. In your .env (this file is only created after running ./install.sh) add the following:

   # License key granted to you by DronaHQ
   LICENSE_KEY=YOUR_LICENSE_KEYs
   

6. Run sudo docker-compose up -d to start the DronaHQ server.

7. Run sudo docker-compose ps to make sure all the containers are up and running.

8. Navigate to your server's IP address in a web browser. DronaHQ should now be running on port 8080.

9. Click Activate, since we're starting from a clean slate. The first user to create an account on an instance becomes the administrator.

AWS Deploy With EC2

Spin up a new EC2 instance. If using AWS, use the following steps:

1. On AWS EC2 dashboard, Click Launch Instance.

2. Click Select for an Ubuntu instance with version 20.04 or higher.

3. Select an instance type of at least t3.medium and click Next.

4. Ensure you select the same VPC that also includes the Databases & API’s that you will want to connect to and click Next.

5. Increase the storage size to 60 GB or higher and click Next.

6. Optionally add some Tags (e.g. app = dronahq) and click Next. This makes it easier to find if you have a lot of instances.

7. Set the network security groups for ports 80, 443, 22 and 8080, with sources set to 0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0, and click Review and Launch. We need to open ports 80 (http) and 443 (https) so you can connect to the server from a browser, as well as port 22 (ssh) so that you can ssh into the instance to configure it and run DronaHQ. By default on a vanilla EC2, DronaHQ will run on port 8080.

8. On the Review Instance Launch screen, click Launch to start your instance.

9. If you're connecting to internal databases, whitelist the VPS's IP address in your database.

10. From your command line tool, SSH into your EC2 instance.

11. Run the command git clone https://github.com/dronahq/self-hosted.git.

12. Run the command cd self-hosted to enter the cloned repository's directory.

13. Edit the docker-compose.yml file using VIM (or other text editor) to set the version of DronaHQ you want to install. To do this, replace X.Y.Z in image:dronahq/self-hosted:X.Y.Z with your desired version. See Select a DronaHQ version number to help you choose a version.

14. Run ./install.sh to install Docker and Docker Compose.

15. In your .env (this file is only created after running ./install.sh) add the following:

    # License key granted to you by DronaHQ
    LICENSE_KEY=YOUR_LICENSE_KEYs
    

16. Run sudo docker-compose up -d to start the DronaHQ server.

17. Run sudo docker-compose ps to make sure all the containers are up and running.

18. Navigate to your server's IP address in a web browser. DronaHQ should now be running on port 8080.

19. Click Activate, since we're starting from a clean slate. The first user to create an account on an instance becomes the administrator.

GCP Deploy With Compute Engine Virtual Machine

1. On GCP Dashboard, Click the Compute Engine Resource and select VM Instances

2. select ‘Create Instance’ from the top menu

3. Create a new VM to these Specs

   • Ubuntu Operating System Version 20.04 LTS or higher
   • Storage Size 60 GB or higher
   • Ram 4 GB or Higher (e2-medium)
   • Optionally add Labels (eg app = dronahq)

4. Create Instance

5. Navigate via search to the VPC Network Firewall settings and be sure to add the following ports set to0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0

   • 80 (HTTP)
   • 443 (HTTPS)
   • 22 (SSH)
   • 8080 (DronaHQ access in browser)

6. If you're connecting to an internal database, be sure to whitelist the VPC’s ip address in your DB

7. SSH into your instance, or use the Google SSH Button to open a VM Terminal in a browser window.

8. Run Command git clone https://github.com/dronahq/self-hosted.git

9. Run Command cd self-hosted

10. Edit the Docker-Compose file using VIM (or other text editor) to specify your desired version number of DronaHQ. To do this, replace X.Y.Z in image:dronahq/self-hosted:X.Y.Z with your desired version. See Select a DronaHQ version number to help you choose a version.

11. Run the command git clone https://github.com/dronahq/self-hosted.git.

12. Run the command cd self-hosted to enter the cloned repository's directory.

13. Edit the docker-compose.yml file using VIM (or other text editor) to set the version of DronaHQ you want to install. To do this, replace X.Y.Z in image:dronahq/self-hosted:X.Y.Z with your desired version. See Select a DronaHQ version number to help you choose a version.

14. Run ./install.sh to install Docker and Docker Compose.

15. In your .env (this file is only created after running ./install.sh) add the following:

    # License key granted to you by DronaHQ
    LICENSE_KEY=YOUR_LICENSE_KEYs
    

16. Run sudo docker-compose up -d to start the DronaHQ server.

17. Run sudo docker-compose ps to make sure all the containers are up and running.

18. Navigate to your server's IP address in a web browser. DronaHQ should now be running on port 8080.

19. Click Activate, since we're starting from a clean slate. The first user to create an account on an instance becomes the administrator.

Azure Deploy with Azure Virtual Machine

1. In the main Azure Portal, select Virtual Machine under Azure Services

2. Click the Create button and select Virtual Machine

3. Select an image of Ubuntu 20.04 or higher

4. For instance size, select Standard_D2s_v3 - 2 vcpus, 8 GiB memory

5. Under the Networking tab, Ensure you select the same Virtual Network that also includes the Databases / API’s you will want to connect to and click Next.

6. Under the Networking tab, configure your network security group to contain the following ports. You may need to create a new Security group that contains these 4 ports (80, 443, 22 and 8080):

   • 80 (http) and 443 (https) for connecting to the server from a browser
   • 22 (ssh) to allow you to ssh into the instance and configure it
   • 8080 is the port that DronaHQ runs on by default

7. From your command line tool, SSH into your Azure instance.

8. Run the command git clone https://github.com/dronahq/self-hosted.git.

9. Run the command cd self-hosted to enter the cloned repository's directory.

10. Edit the docker-compose.yml file using VIM (or other text editor) to set the version of DronaHQ you want to install. To do this, replace X.Y.Z in image:dronahq/self-hosted:X.Y.Z with your desired version. See Select a DronaHQ version number to help you choose a version.

11. Run ./install.sh to install Docker and Docker Compose.

12. In your .env (this file is only created after running ./install.sh) add the following:

    # License key granted to you by DronaHQ
    LICENSE_KEY=YOUR_LICENSE_KEYs
    

13. Run sudo docker-compose up -d to start the DronaHQ server.

14. Run sudo docker-compose ps to make sure all the containers are up and running.

15. Navigate to your server's IP address in a web browser. DronaHQ should now be running on port 8080.

16. Click Activate, since we're starting from a clean slate. The first user to create an account on an instance becomes the administrator.

Updating DronaHQ Self-Hosted

The latest DronaHQ releases can be pulled from Docker Hub. When you run an on-premise instance of DronaHQ, you’ll need to pull an updated image in order to get new features and fixes.

See more information on our different release channels and recommended update strategies in our documentation.

Docker cheatsheet

Below is a cheatsheet for useful Docker commands. Note that you may need to prefix them with sudo.

Command	Description
docker-compose up -d	Builds, (re)creates, starts, and attaches to containers for a service. -dallows containers to run in background (detached).
docker-compose down	Stops and remove containers and networks
docker-compose stop	Stops containers, but does not remove them and their networks
docker ps -a	Display all Docker containers
docker-compose ps -a	Display all containers related to images declared in the docker-compose file.
docker logs -f <container_name>	Stream container logs to stdout
docker exec -it <container_name> psql -U <postgres_user> -W <postgres_password> <postgres_db>	Runs psql inside a container
docker kill $(docker ps -q)	Kills all running containers
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)	Removes all containers and networks
docker rmi -f $(docker images -q)	Removes (and un-tags) all images from the host
docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q)	Removes all volumes and completely wipes any persisted data