the ecs-appliance is a selfservice production setup virtual machine builder and executor for ecs. it can be stacked on top of the developer vm, but is independent of it.
See the Administrator Manual for installing and configuring an ECS-Appliance.
# bootstrap appliance
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install curl
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ecs-org/ecs-appliance/master/bootstrap-appliance.sh > /tmp/bootstrap.sh
cd /tmp; chmod +x /tmp/bootstrap.sh; /tmp/bootstrap.sh --yes 2>&1 | tee /tmp/setup.log
# create a new environment
env-create.sh domain.name /app/env.yml
XXX: edit your created env.yml and change settings
# activate environment
chmod 0600 /app/env.yml
cp /app/env.yml /run/active-env.yml
# create a empty ecs database
sudo -u postgres createdb ecs -T template0 -l de_DE.utf8
# apply new environment settings and start service
systemctl restart appliance
# create first internal office user (f=female, m=male)
create-internal-user.sh [email protected] "First Name" "Second Name" "f"
# create and send matching client certificate
create-client-certificate.sh [email protected] cert_name [daysvalid(default=7)]
# disable test user
cat << EOF | docker exec -i ecs_ecs.web_1 /start run ./manage.py shell
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
User.objects.filter(profile__is_testuser=True).update(is_active=False)
EOF
# Installation is finished.
# Import Client Certificate into browser.
# Browse to https://domain.name and login.