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RTMIS Self-Host Installation Guide

Installation Guide

Below step is for self-host or on-prem installation process. Please follow Developer-Guide to setup the development environement.

Infrastructure Diagram

System Requirements

Application Server

  • CPU: 2 GHz Dual Core Processor
  • Memory: 4 GiB
  • Storage: 25 GiB or more Disk Space
  • Operating System: Ubuntu Server 22.04 - x86_64 (AMD/Intel)
  • IP: 1 public IP (plus 1 private IP if the database server in private IP)

Database Server

  • CPU: 2 GHz Dual Core Processor
  • Memory: 4 GiB
  • Storage: 25 GiB or more Disk Space
  • Operating System: Ubuntu Server 22.04 - x86_64 (AMD/Intel)
  • IP: 1 private or public IP

Prerequisite

  • Servers: Application and database servers provisioned as specified above
  • Domain: Domain or Subdomain which pointed to the server's public IP
  • Docker Engine: 20.10 or above
  • Git: 2.39 or above
  • 3rd Party Service Providers:
    • Mailjet: Mail delivery service
    • Sentry: Error tracking
    • Github Account: Code repository and CI/CD tool platform
    • Expo: Mobile application build service

Preparation

Note: The following guide is an example installation on Ubuntu and Debian based systems. You need the below depedencies installed both on Application Server and Database Server.

Install Docker Engine

  1. UpdateInstall theDocker apt package index and install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS:engine:

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release
    
  2. Add Docker’s official GPG key:

    sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
    curl -fsSLL https://download.get.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpgcom | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
    
  3. Use the following command to set up the repository:

    echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
    
  4. Update the apt package index:

    sudo apt update
    
  5. Install Docker Engine, containerd, and Docker Compose.

    sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-composesh
    
  6. Manage Docker as a non-root user.

    sudo groupadd docker
    sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
    

Install Git Version Control

The RTMIS uses git as version control. Therefore it is better to install git to make it easier to retrieve updates instead download the repository zip.

sudo apt install git

Install Database Server

Clone

Execute the Repository

commands
gitbelow clone https://github.com/akvo/rtmis

Environment Variable Setup

Install text editor to be able to edit .env file

sudo apt install nano

or

sudo apt install vim

Go toon the repository directory, then edit the environment

cd rtmis/deploy
vim .db.env

Example Environment:

POSTGRES_PASSWORD=<<your postgres user's password>>

Run the Database Server

docker compose -f docker-compose.db.yml up -d 

Install Application Server

Execure below commands on server who allocated for applicationthe database server.

Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/akvo/rtmis

Environment Variable Setup

Install text editor to be able to edit .env file

sudo apt install nano

or

sudo apt install vim

Go to the repository directory, then edit the environment

cd rtmis/deploy
cp db.env.template db.env
vim db.env

Example Environment:

POSTGRES_PASSWORD=<<your postgres user's password>>

# Ensure the values below match those in the app.env file in the application.
DB_USER=<<your rtmis db user>>
DB_PASSWORD=<<your postgresql password>>
DB_SCHEMA=<<your rtmis schema name>>

Run the Database Server

docker compose -f docker-compose.db.yml up -d 

Install Application Server

Execute the commands below on the server allocated for the application server.

Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/akvo/rtmis

Environment Variable Setup

Install text editor to be able to edit .env file

sudo apt install nano

or

sudo apt install vim

Go to the repository directory, then edit the environment

cd rtmis/deploy
cp app.env.template app.env
vim app.env

Example Environment:environment variables:

DB_HOST=<<your postgresql ip>>
DB_PASSWORD=<<your postgresql password>>
DB_SCHEMA=<<your rtmis schema name>>
DB_USER=<<your rtmis db user>>
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=<<your postgres user's password>>
DEBUG="False"
DJANGO_SECRET=<<your Django secret key>>
MAILJET_APIKEY=<<your mailjet api key from mailjet portal>>
MAILJET_SECRET=<<your mailjet api secret from mailjet portal>>
WEBDOMAIN=<<your exposed domain url>>
APK_UPLOAD_SECRET=<<your apk upload secret>>
STORAGE_PATH="./storage"
SENTRY_MOBILE_ENV="<<your sentry env>>"
SENTRY_MOBILE_DSN="<<your_sentry_mobile_DSN>>"
SENTRY_MOBILE_AUTH_TOKEN="<<your_sentry_mobile_auth_token>>"
TRAEFIK_CERTIFICATESRESOLVERS_MYRESOLVER_ACME_EMAIL=<<administrator email for Letsencrypt registration>>

Build the Frontend

docker compose -f docker-compose.frontend-build.yml up 

Run the Application

docker compose -f docker-compose.app.yml up -d --build