Deployment¶
Pontoon is designed to be deployed on Heroku. To deploy an instance of Pontoon on Heroku, you must first create an app on your Heroku dashboard. The steps below assume you’ve already created an app and have installed the Heroku Toolbelt.
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Buildpack¶
Pontoon uses several buildpacks in a specific order. They are (in order):
- heroku-buildpack-apt for installing Subversion.
- heroku-buildpack-ssh for setting up the SSH keys necessary for committing to version control.
- The official
heroku/nodejs
buildpack for installing Node.js programs for pre-processing frontend assets. - The official
heroku/python
buildpack as our primary buildpack.
You can set these buildpacks on your app with the following toolbelt commands:
# Note that we use add and --index 1 to append to the top of the list.
heroku buildpacks:set heroku/python
heroku buildpacks:add --index 1 heroku/nodejs
heroku buildpacks:add --index 1 https://github.com/Osmose/heroku-buildpack-ssh.git#v0.1
heroku buildpacks:add --index 1 https://github.com/mozilla/heroku-buildpack-apt.git#v0.1
Environment Variables¶
The following is a list of environment variables you’ll want to set on the app you create:
Note
Alternatively, you can put all variables below in a dotenv text file:
VAR="value 1"
OTHER_VAR="other value"
If you do so, you will only have to give the path of this file to Pontoon
through the DOTENV_PATH
environment variable:
DOTENV_PATH=/path/to/my/config.env
ADMIN_EMAIL
- Optional. Email address for the
ADMINS
setting. ADMIN_NAME
- Optional. Name for the
ADMINS
setting. AUTHENTICATION_METHOD
- The default value is django, which allows you to log in via accounts created using manage.py shell. Set to ‘fxa’ if you want to use ‘Firefox Accounts’ (corresponding FXA_* settings must be set). Set to ‘github’ if you want to use ‘GitHub’ (corresponding GITHUB_* settings must be set). Set to ‘gitlab’ if you want to use ‘GitLab’ (corresponding GITLAB_* settings must be set if required). Set to ‘google’ if you want to use ‘Google’ (corresponding GOOGLE_* settings must be set).
CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER
- Controls whether asynchronous tasks (mainly used during sync) are sent to
Celery or executed immediately and synchronously. Set this to
False
on production. CELERYD_MAX_TASKS_PER_CHILD
- Maximum number of tasks a Celery worker process can execute before it’s replaced with a new one. Defaults to 20 tasks.
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
- Optional. Default email address to send emails from. Default value:
Pontoon <pontoon@hostname>
. DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC
Disables running
./manage.py collectstatic
during the build. Should be set to1
.Heroku’s Python buildpack has a bug that causes issues when running node binaries during the compile step of the buildpack. To get around this, we run the command in our post-compile step (see
bin/post_compile
) when the issue doesn’t occur.DJANGO_DEBUG
- Controls
DEBUG
mode for the site. Should be set to False in production. DJANGO_DEV
- Signifies whether this is a development server or not. Should be False in production. Adds some additional django apps that can be helpful during day to day development.
EMAIL_HOST
- SMTP host (default:
'smtp.sendgrid.net'
) EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
- Password for the SMTP connection.
EMAIL_HOST_USER
- Username for the SMTP connection (default:
'apikey'
). EMAIL_PORT
- SMTP port (default:
587
) EMAIL_USE_TLS
- Use explicit TLS for the SMTP connection (default:
True
) EMAIL_USE_SSL
- Use implicit TLS for the SMTP connection (default:
False
) ENABLE_BUGS_TAB
- Optional. Enables Bugs tab on team pages, which pulls team data from bugzilla.mozilla.org. Specific for Mozilla deployments.
ENABLE_INSIGHTS_TAB
- Optional. Enables Insights tab on team pages, which presents data that needs to be collected by the Collect Insights scheduled job. It is advised to run the job at least once before enabling the tab, otherwise the content will be empty. See the spec for more information.
ERROR_PAGE_URL
- Optional. URL to the page displayed to your users when the application encounters a system error. See Heroku Reference for more information.
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_KEY
- Optional. Set your Google Analytics key to use Google Analytics.
GOOGLE_TRANSLATE_API_KEY
- Optional. Set your Google Cloud Translation API key to use generic machine translation engine by Google.
GOOGLE_AUTOML_PROJECT_ID
- Optional. Set your Google Cloud AutoML Translation model ID to use custom machine translation engine by Google.
MAINTENANCE_PAGE_URL
- Optional. URL to the page displayed to your users when the application is placed in the maintenance state. See Heroku Reference for more information.
MANUAL_SYNC
- Optional. Enable Sync button in project Admin.
MEDIA_ROOT
- Optional. The absolute path of the “media” folder the projects will be cloned into (it is located next to the “pontoon” Python module by default).
MICROSOFT_TRANSLATOR_API_KEY
- Optional. Set your Microsoft Translator API key to use machine translation by Microsoft.
NEW_RELIC_API_KEY
- Optional. API key for accessing the New Relic REST API. Used to mark deploys on New Relic.
NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME
- Optional. Name to give to this app on New Relic. Required if you’re using New Relic.
PROJECT_MANAGERS
- Optional. A list of project manager email addresses to send project requests to
PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION
- Required. Must be set to
python
. Needed for Google AutoML Translation. Learn more on Protocol Buffers Homepage. SECRET_KEY
- Required. Secret key used for sessions, cryptographic signing, etc.
SITE_URL
- Controls the base URL for the site, including the protocol and port.
Defaults to
http://localhost:8000
, should always be set in production. SSH_CONFIG
Contents of the
~/.ssh/config
file used when Pontoon connects to VCS servers via SSH. Used for disabling strict key checking and setting the default user for SSH. For example:StrictHostKeyChecking=no Host hg.mozilla.org User pontoon@mozilla.com Host svn.mozilla.org User pontoon@mozilla.com
SSH_KEY
- SSH private key to use for authentication when Pontoon connects to VCS servers via SSH.
Note
Changing the SSH_CONFIG
or SSH_KEY
environment variables requires
a rebuild of the site, as these settings are only used at build time. Simply
changing them will not actually update the site until the next build.
The Heroku Repo plugin includes a rebuild command that is handy for triggering builds without making code changes.
Note
Some environment variables, such as the SSH-related ones, may contain
newlines. The easiest way to set these is using the heroku
command-line
tool to pass the contents of an existing file to them:
heroku config:set SSH_KEY="`cat /path/to/key_rsa`"
STATIC_HOST
- Optional. Hostname to prepend to static resources paths. Useful for serving
static files from a CDN. Example:
//asdf.cloudfront.net
. SUGGESTION_NOTIFICATIONS_DAY
- Optional. Integer representing a day of the week on which the send_suggestion_notifications management command will run. 0 represents Monday, 6 represents Sunday. The default value is 4 (Friday).
SVN_LD_LIBRARY_PATH
- Path to prepend to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
when running SVN. This is necessary on Heroku because the Python buildpack alters the path in a way that breaks the built-in SVN command. Set this to/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
. SYNC_TASK_TIMEOUT
- Optional. Multiple sync tasks for the same project cannot run concurrently to prevent potential DB and VCS inconsistencies. We store the information about the running task in cache and clear it after the task completes. In case of an error, we might never clear the cache, so we use SYNC_TASK_TIMEOUT as the longest possible period after which the cache is cleared and the subsequent task can run. The value should exceed the longest sync task of the instance. The default value is 3600 seconds (1 hour).
SYSTRAN_TRANSLATE_API_KEY
- Optional. Set your `SYSTRAN Translate API key`_ to use machine translation by SYSTRAN.
TZ
- Timezone for the dynos that will run the app. Pontoon operates in UTC, so set
this to
UTC
. VCS_SYNC_NAME
- Optional. Default committer’s name used when committing translations to version control system.
VCS_SYNC_EMAIL
- Optional. Default committer’s email used when committing translations to version control system.
Add-ons¶
Pontoon is designed to run with the following add-ons enabled:
- Database: Heroku Postgres
- Log Management: Papertrail
- Error Tracking: Raygun.io
- Email: Sendgrid
- Scheduled Jobs: Heroku Scheduler
- Cache: Memcachier
- RabbitMQ: CloudAMQP
It’s possible to run with the free tiers of all of these add-ons, but it is recommended that, at a minimum, you run the “Standard 0” tier of Postgres.
SendGrid Add-on¶
Pontoon uses SendGrid, which expects the following environment variable:
SENDGRID_PASSWORD
- Use SendGrid API key.
Cache Add-on¶
Pontoon uses django-bmemcached, which expects the following environment variables from the cache add-on:
MEMCACHE_SERVERS
- Semi-colon separated list of memcache server addresses.
MEMCACHE_USERNAME
- Username to use for authentication.
MEMCACHE_PASSWORD
- Password to use for authentication.
Note
By default, the environment variables added by Memcachier are prefixed
with MEMCACHIER
instead of MEMCACHE
. You can “attach” the
configuration variables with the correct prefix using the addons:attach
command:
heroku addons:attach resource_name --as MEMCACHE
Replace resource_name
with the name of the resource provided by the cache
addon you wish to use, such as memcachier:100
. Use the
heroku addons
command to see a list of resource names that are available.
RabbitMQ Add-on¶
Similar to the cache add-ons, Pontoon expects environment variables from the RabbitMQ add-on:
RABBITMQ_URL
- URL for connecting to the RabbitMQ server. This should be in the format for Celery’s BROKER_URL setting.
Note
Again, you must attach the resource for RabbitMQ as RABBITMQ
. See the
note in the Cache Add-ons section for details.
Scheduled Jobs¶
Pontoon requires several scheduled jobs to run regularly.
Sync Projects¶
While internal Pontoon DB can be used for storing localizable strings, Pontoon specializes in using version control systems for that purpose. If you choose this option as well, you’ll need to run the following scheduled job:
./manage.py sync_projects
It’s recommended to run this job at least once an hour. It commits any string changes in the database to the remote VCS servers associated with each project, and pulls down the latest changes to keep the database in sync.
Send Deadline Notifications¶
Pontoon allows you to set deadlines for projects. This job sends deadline reminders to contributors of projects when they are due in 7 days. If 2 days before the deadline project still isn’t complete for the contributor’s locale, notifications are sent again. The command is designed to run daily.
./manage.py send_deadline_notifications
Send Suggestion Notifications¶
This job sends notifications about newly created unreviewed suggestions that were submitted, unapproved or unrejected in the last 7 days. Recipients of notifications are users with permission to review them, as well as authors of any previous translations or comments of the same string. The command is designed to run on a weekly basis.
./manage.py send_suggestion_notifications
Send Review Notifications¶
This job sends notifications about newly reviewed (approved or rejected) suggestions to the authors of those suggestions.
The command is designed to run on a daily basis.
./manage.py send_review_notifications
Collect Insights¶
The Insights tab in the dashboards presents data that cannot be retrieved from the existing data models efficiently upon each request. This job gathers all the required data and stores it in a dedicated denormalized data model. The job is designed to run in the beginning of the day, every day.
./manage.py collect_insights
Sync Log Retention¶
You may also optionally run the clear_old_sync_logs
management command on a
schedule to remove sync logs from the database that are over 90 days old:
./manage.py clear_old_sync_logs
Provisioning Workers¶
Pontoon executes scheduled jobs using Celery. These jobs are handled by
the worker
process type. You’ll need to manually provision workers based on
how many projects you plan to support and how complex they are. At a minimum,
you’ll want to provision at least one worker
dyno:
heroku ps:scale worker=1
Database Migrations¶
After deploying Pontoon for the first time, you must run the database migrations. This can be done via the toolbelt:
heroku run ./manage.py migrate
Creating an Admin User¶
After deploying the site, you can create a superuser account using the
createsuperuser
management command:
heroku run ./manage.py createsuperuser --user=admin --email=your@email.com
You’ll then be prompted to set a password for your new user.
If you’ve already logged into the site with the email that you want to use, you’ll have to use the Django shell to mark your user account as an admin:
heroku run ./manage.py shell
# Connection and Python info...
>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> user = User.objects.get(email='your@email.com')
>>> user.is_staff = True
>>> user.is_superuser = True
>>> user.save()
>>> exit()
And with that, you’re ready to start Localizing your projects!