This repo contains Seeking Alpha's customized version of the Rocket.Chat server and web client. That code may be found in any of the sa_patches_1.2.3 branches, which are forks of the 1.2.3 release tags, with our custom patches re-cherry-picked onto each new release.

This branch (sa_devops), however, is a mostly empty branch which serves two purposes:

• The "Deploy to EC2" workflow, which copies a tarball from S3 onto the various RC EC2 instances and relaunches the RocketChat servers from it.
• The "Rotate AWS secrets" monthly cronjob

GitHub requires a branch to be marked as the "default" branch, which is used for three purposes:

• Default target for new PRs
• Definition of the scheduled cronjob workflows
• Adds a "Run workflow" button to the Workflow run-history page if a on: workflow_dispatch: is defined for this workflow. (You may choose another branch to actually run workflow code, but the button only appears if the default branch defines it.)

The Deployment Process

• The Deploy job (defined in .github/workflows/deploy.yml) obtains credentials and runs ./github.sh
• github.sh uses the *.sh.tpl template files to prepare *.sh files which are executed on the rocketchat EC2 nodes via ssh:
  • install_tarball.sh installs the RC bundle tarball and its dependencies into a temporary folder
  • activate_new_build.sh swaps out the old installation folder with the new one and HUPs the daemon