Deploying Rocket.Chat on Google Compute Engine

1. Create a compute instance with a linux image (i.e the default debian)

2. SSH to the instance

3. run the following to install docker: sudo wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh

4. install a docker image for mongo db sudo docker run --name db -d mongo --smallfiles

5. install a docker image for rocketchat and connect it to mongodb. ROOT_URL should be substituted for your own domain:

   sudo docker run --name rocketchat -p 80:3000 --env ROOT_URL=https://www.test.com --env MONGO_URL=mongodb://db/rocketchat --link db -d rocketchat/rocket.chat

   You are now runing rocket chat on compute engine. You can open a browser with the external IP of the instance.

If you want the containers to start each time the instance reboots configure the following to the instance.

• click on the instance in the and hit “edit”
• Under “Custom metadata” add an item with

key: "startup-script"
value "sudo docker start db;
sudo docker start rocketchat"