Self-hosting Event Store on Digital Ocean

Recently in one of our projects, we have decided that it would be a good idea to switch to EventStore. Our current solution is based on RailsEventStore (internal to each Bounded Context) and an external RabbitMQ to publish some event “globally”. This approach works, but relying on EventStore sounds like a better approach. For a long time, we felt blocked, as EventStore doesn’t offer a hosted solution and we were not sure if we want to self-host (in addition to the current heroku setup).

Luckily, one of the Arkency developers, Paweł, was following the discussion and quickly timeboxed a solution of self-hosting Event Store on Digital Ocean. It took him super quick to deliver a working node. This enables us to experiment with partial switching to EventStore.

I have asked Paweł to provide some instructions how he did it, as it seems to a very popular need among the DDD/CQRS developers.

Here are some of the notes. If it lacks any important information, feel free to ping us in the comments.

$  apt-get update
$  curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/EventStore/EventStore-OSS/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
$  apt-get install eventstore-oss

$ ifconfig eth0 |grep addr:
          inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.NNN  Bcast:XXX.XXX.XXX.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::36:88ff:febb:5d6d/64 Scope:Link

$ echo "ExtIp: XXX.XXX.XXX.NNN" >> /etc/eventstore/eventstore.conf
$ cat /etc/eventstore/eventstore.conf
---
RunProjections: None
ClusterSize: 1
ExtIp: XXX.XXX.XXX.NNN

$ service eventstore start

Those are the instructions for the basic setup/installation. You can now start experimenting with EventStore. For production use though you’d need to invest in reliability (clustering, process supervision and monitoring) as well as in security.