Deploy Hasura GraphQL server to NodeChef cloud

This tutorial document will walk you through deploying the Hasura GraphQL server using NodeChef Docker hosting and NodeChef managed PostgreSQL hosting.

Although NodeChef supports multiple deployment methods such as Git and CLI, in this guide, we will be deploying by simply uploading a single Dockerfile.

• 1
  Create the Hasura GraphQL server app

  Log in and navigate to the Dashboard. Click on deployments and complete the form. Select the 128 MB RAM size and then select PostgreSQL as your database.

  Proceed to select the region where you want to deploy your GraphQL server

  Once the cluster is provisioned, a URL will be assigned to your project which will be displaced on the dashboard.

  
• 2
  Get and upload the Dockerfile.

  You can create a file with name Dockerfile and copy the script below into it or download the same file from this url https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hasura/graphql-engine-heroku/master/Dockerfile.

  FROM hasura/graphql-engine:v1.0.0 # Enable the console ENV HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLE_CONSOLE=true # Change $DATABASE_URL to your heroku postgres URL if you're not using # the primary postgres instance in your app CMD graphql-engine \ --database-url $DATABASE_URL \ serve \ --server-port $PORT ## Comment the command above and use the command below to ## enable an access-key and an auth-hook ## Recommended that you set the access-key as a environment variable in heroku #CMD graphql-engine \ # --database-url $DATABASE_URL \ # serve \ # --server-port $PORT \ # --access-key XXXXX \ # --auth-hook https://myapp.com/hasura-webhook # # Console can be enable/disabled by the env var HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLE_CONSOLE

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  Upload the Dockerfile.

  Zip just the Dockerfile (Without the folder) and then upload it from the dashboard.

  If you closed the deployment wizard that was presented on the screen after deployment, you can find it again under App actions → Upload code.

  Select Dockerized under platform and then select the zipped Dockerfile under App code Click the Deploy app button to initiate deployment. See image below.

  
  

  After the deployment is complete. Close the upload section, click on App actions → Browse to see it in action

  
  

  That's it!

  There are other ways to deploy this, you could have forked the Dockerfile on GitHub and then deploy it from the dashboard using our GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab integrations. You could has also cloned the repository containing the Dockerfile locally and then use the CLI to deploy.