This guide will show you how to host Plausible on Nomad & Consul. Please see the Plausible self-hosting Docs for more information.
Requirements
Prequisites
Note that this templates uses the Nomad Server
client.disable_file_sandbox
option se we can mount the environment config file as env valuesCreate a folder on your host machine. In the example we will use
/mnt/plausible
Update the values in
plausible-conf.env
Folder tree
mnt/
├─ plausible/
│ ├─ db-data/
│ ├─ event-data/
│ ├─ plausible-conf.env
plausible-conf.env
BASE_URL=...
SECRET_KEY_BASE=...
Nomad Job Template
job "plausible" {
datacenters = ["dc1"]
type = "service"
group "database" {
count = 1
network {
mode = "bridge"
port "db" {
to = 5432
}
}
service {
name = "plausible-database"
port = 5432
connect {
sidecar_service {}
}
}
task "postgres" {
driver = "docker"
config {
image = "postgres:14-alpine"
ports = ["db"]
mount {
type = "bind"
target = "/var/lib/postgresql/data"
source = "/mnt/plausible/db-data/"
readonly = false
bind_options {
propagation = "rshared"
}
}
}
env {
POSTGRES_PASSWORD = "postgres"
}
}
}
group "events" {
count = 1
network {
mode = "bridge"
port "events" {
to = 8123
}
}
service {
name = "plausible-events"
port = 8123
connect {
sidecar_service {}
}
}
task "clickhouse" {
driver = "docker"
config {
image = "clickhouse/clickhouse-server:22.6-alpine"
ports = ["events"]
mount {
type = "bind"
target = "/var/lib/clickhouse"
source = "/mnt/plausible/event-data/"
readonly = false
bind_options {
propagation = "rshared"
}
}
mount {
type = "bind"
target = "/etc/clickhouse-server/config.d/logging.xml"
source = "local/clickhouse-config.xml"
readonly = true
bind_options {
propagation = "rshared"
}
}
mount {
type = "bind"
target = "/etc/clickhouse-server/users.d/logging.xml"
source = "local/clickhouse-user-config.xml"
readonly = true
bind_options {
propagation = "rshared"
}
}
ulimit {
nofile = "262144:262144"
}
}
template {
data = <<EOF
<clickhouse>
<logger>
<level>warning</level>
<console>true</console>
</logger>
<!-- Stop all the unnecessary logging -->
<query_thread_log remove="remove"/>
<query_log remove="remove"/>
<text_log remove="remove"/>
<trace_log remove="remove"/>
<metric_log remove="remove"/>
<asynchronous_metric_log remove="remove"/>
<session_log remove="remove"/>
<part_log remove="remove"/>
</clickhouse>
EOF
destination = "local/clickhouse-config.xml"
}
template {
data = <<EOF
<clickhouse>
<profiles>
<default>
<log_queries>0</log_queries>
<log_query_threads>0</log_query_threads>
</default>
</profiles>
</clickhouse>
EOF
destination = "local/clickhouse-user-config.xml"
}
resources {
cpu = 100
memory = 512
}
}
}
group "plausible" {
count = 1
network {
mode = "bridge"
port "http" {
to = 8000
}
}
service {
name = "plausible-web"
port = "http"
connect {
sidecar_service {
proxy {
upstreams {
destination_name = "plausible-database"
local_bind_port = 5432
}
upstreams {
destination_name = "plausible-events"
local_bind_port = 8123
}
}
}
}
}
task "plausible" {
driver = "docker"
config {
image = "plausible/analytics:latest"
ports = ["http"]
command = "sh"
args = ["/start.sh"]
mount {
type = "bind"
target = "/start.sh"
source = "local/start.sh"
readonly = true
bind_options {
propagation = "rshared"
}
}
}
template {
data = <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
sleep 10
sh /entrypoint.sh db createdb
sh /entrypoint.sh db migrate
sh /entrypoint.sh run
EOF
destination = "local/start.sh"
}
template {
source = "/mnt/plausible/plausible-conf.env"
destination = "local/plausible-conf.env"
env = true
}
env {
DATABASE_URL = "postgres://postgres:postgres@${NOMAD_UPSTREAM_ADDR_plausible_database}/plausible_db"
CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE_URL = "http://${NOMAD_UPSTREAM_ADDR_plausible_events}/plausible_events_db"
}
}
}
}
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