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Learn How To Setup Sentry via Docker on Ubuntu 16.04

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Prerequisites
• Installation

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Introduction

Sentry is an open source solution for error tracking. Sentry tracks exceptions and other useful messages from applications that would traditionally be written to log files, and instead utilizes a user-friendly interface.

Prerequisites

• A newly deployed IT Web Services instance running Ubuntu 16.04.

https://www.itweb.services/tutorials/linux-guides/setup-a-non-root-user-with-sudo-access-on-ubuntu”>sudo user.

https://www.itweb.services/tutorials/linux-guides/installing-docker-ce-on-ubuntu-16-04″>Docker CE installed.

Installation

Update the package index list:

sudo apt-get update

Install the development tools package:

sudo apt-get install build-essential -y

Clone getsentry/onpremise from source:

git clone https://github.com/getsentry/onpremise

Enter the onpremise folder and build a local custom image:

cd ~/onpremise
sudo make build

Create a script called sentry_services.sh:

sudo nano sentry_services.sh

Add the following terminal commands to the sentry_services.sh script file:

#! /bin/bash
clear
sudo docker run 
 --detach 
 --name sentry-redis 
 redis:3.2-alpine
sudo docker run 
 --detach 
 --name sentry-postgres 
 --env POSTGRES_PASSWORD=secret 
 --env POSTGRES_USER=sentry 
postgres:9.5
sudo docker run 
  --detach 
  --name sentry-smtp 
  tianon/exim4
sudo docker run 
  --rm sentry-onpremise 
  --help
sudo docker run 
  --rm sentry-onpremise 
  config generate-secret-key

Save and exit, then execute the script:

. sentry_services.sh

The output of the executed script will generate a key which we will have to save in an environment variable called: SENTRY_SECRET_KEY. We also have to store this in the ~/.bashrc file, so that if our SSH session expires and we must login again, our SENTRY_SECRET_KEY variable always gets the same value:

echo 'export SENTRY_SECRET_KEY="_secret_key_here_"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
echo $SENTRY_SECRET_KEY

Run migrations:

sudo docker run 
  --link sentry-redis:redis 
  --link sentry-postgres:postgres 
  --link sentry-smtp:smtp 
  --env SENTRY_SECRET_KEY=${SENTRY_SECRET_KEY} 
  --rm -it sentry-onpremise upgrade

Once the migration is completed, start the Sentry app as a web-service:

sudo docker run 
  --detach 
  --name sentry-web-01 
  --publish 9000:9000 
  --link sentry-redis:redis 
  --link sentry-postgres:postgres 
  --link sentry-smtp:smtp 
  --env SENTRY_SECRET_KEY=${SENTRY_SECRET_KEY} 
  sentry-onpremise 
  run web

Start the background workers:

sudo docker run 
  --detach 
  --name sentry-worker-01 
  --link sentry-redis:redis 
  --link sentry-postgres:postgres 
  --link sentry-smtp:smtp 
  --env SENTRY_SECRET_KEY=${SENTRY_SECRET_KEY} 
  sentry-onpremise 
  run worker

Start the cron process:

sudo docker run 
  --detach 
  --name sentry-cron 
  --link sentry-redis:redis 
  --link sentry-postgres:postgres 
  --link sentry-smtp:smtp 
  --env SENTRY_SECRET_KEY=${SENTRY_SECRET_KEY} 
  sentry-onpremise 
  run cron

Sentry is now configured and listens on port 9000 locally. Visit http://you_server_ip:9000.

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