Release: Deepstream 2.4

Announcing the 2.4 release of deepstream.io

Announcing the release of deepstream.io 2.4, which now supports running deepstream as a daemon and registering itself as a service via init.d or systemd.

deepstream.io 2.4

Registering as a linux service

If you are running any linux distro chances are you support either init.d (AWS/CentOS) or systemd (Ubuntu/debian). Using the new service installer means downloading deepstream and getting it to run as a service and auto-restart to avoid downtime is as easy as

# When using YUM
sudo wget https://bintray.com/deepstreamio/rpm/rpm -O /etc/yum.repos.d/bintray-deepstreamio-rpm.repo
sudo yum install -y deepstream.io
# Install as a init.d service
sudo deepstream service add
# Start the service
sudo deepstream service start

And that’s it! You now have a service running locally that can provide realtime goodness out of the box! To view all of the CLI options look here and checkout the tutorial for more info!

Running a daemon

For those running servers on windows or mac, although we currently don’t support as a native service on those platforms you can still run the daemon to monitor and auto-restart deepstream if necessary, while still supporting al the normal start options

deepstream daemon --help

Usage: daemon [options]

start a daemon for deepstream server

Options:

  -h, --help                 output usage information
  -c, --config [file]        configuration file, parent directory will be used as prefix for other config files
  -l, --lib-dir [directory]  path where to lookup for plugins like connectors and logger
  --server-name <name>       Each server within a cluster needs a unique name
  --host <host>              host for the HTTP/websocket server
  --port <port>              port for the HTTP/websocket server
  --disable-auth             Force deepstream to use "none" auth type
  --disable-permissions      Force deepstream to use "none" permissions
  --log-level <level>        Log messages with this level and above

Installing via brew cask

Last, but certainly not least, we now publish deepstream via the awesome homebrew. This means installing deepstream on osx is as simple as

brew cask install deepstream

And install plugins from anywhere

deepstream install msg redis
=> deepstream.io-msg-redis v1.0.4 was installed to /usr/local/lib/deepstream

So let brew deal with installing and upgrading, so that you don’t have to!