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Thomas Hintz 1 week ago
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* Development Notes
- Currently, only tested on Linux (Debian). Everything should
theoretically also work on Mac but some commands may need updating
and it has not been tested, but multi-platform support, except for
Windows, was kept in mind during development.
* Project Goal
To make deploying, managing, and updating self-hosted app instances
easy.
* Short Note On Generative AI
This project does NOT use any code or documentation generated by an
LLM and no code or text generated by an LLM is acceptable as a
contribution.
* Supported Services
Currently, only a limited set of external services can be used for
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setup it can be done and tested without needing to deal with the web
app as well.
** Setup "Base" CLI Terraform For Deploying Individual Instance
*** Dependencies
** Webapp
The webapp is used both to provide a more "user-friendly" interface
for setting up and managing instances as well as to provide a
multi-user and multi-instance service. Internally, to manage an
instance, the webapp generates the configs and invokes the same
commands used when running the "base" CLI version by itself.
* Setup "Base" CLI Terraform For Deploying Individual Instance
NOTE: some of this may be outdated. It has not been tested on its own
outside of running via the webapp for a bit. It does work when run via
the webapp and all of the services still need to be setup as
detailed (the data can be input via the webapp instead of only via the
config files).
** Dependencies
- [[https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/install][terraform]]
- [[https://www.docker.com/][docker]]
- bash
- GNU Make
*** Services
** Services
**** [[https://www.digitalocean.com/][DigitalOcean]]
*** [[https://www.digitalocean.com/][DigitalOcean]]
- Create a DigitalOcean account and sign in to it
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- set the "scope" to "Full Access"
- save the generated token for placing in production.tfvars -> do_token
**** [[https://www.cloudflare.com/][Cloudflare]]
*** [[https://www.cloudflare.com/][Cloudflare]]
- Create a CloudFlare account and sign into it
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These will be used later on in config/production.tfvars for cloudflare_zone_id and cloudflare_account_id
**** [[https://backblaze.com][Backblaze]]
*** [[https://backblaze.com][Backblaze]]
This is used automated for "off-site" backups / snapshots.
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- Click "Create new key"
- Copy/save the key for later use in config/apps.config BACKBLAZE_APPLICATION_KEY and the "keyID" for BACKBLAZE_KEY_ID
*** Configuration
**** apps.config
** Configuration
*** apps.config
- ~cp config/apps.config.tmpl config/apps.config~
- then edit ~config/apps.config~ and fill in all variables
**** production.tfvars
*** production.tfvars
- ~cp config/production.tfvars.tmpl config/production.tfvars~
- then edit ~config/production.tfvars~ and fill in all variables
**** ssh keys
*** ssh keys
- ~touch config/ssh-keys~
- if you want to add your ssh key(s) for debugging then paste the pub ID in to the file
**** initializing the "off-site" Restic backups
*** initializing the "off-site" Restic backups
- ~make restic-init~
*** Deploy
** Deploy
- ~make apply~
*** You're done!
** You're done!
It will take a few minutes to deploy the server, start it, and pull
all the docker images. But after that you should be able to visit your
site and the apps running on its subdomains!
** Webapp
* Setup Webapp
** Dependencies
- [[https://code.call-cc.org/][CHICKEN Scheme 5.3+]]
- docker
- GNU Make
The webapp is written in Lisp (CHICKEN Scheme) and connects to a
PostgreSQL database. It also depends on being able to run some docker
commands. It has only been tested on Linux. Running the commands on
other platforms may need work. A Makefile command is provided for
running the Postgres database via docker so Postgres is not a listed
as a direct dependency.
** CHICKEN Scheme Libraries
These will need to be installed via the ~chicken-install~ command.
~postgresql sql-null srfi-1 srfi-13 srfi-18 srfi-158 srfi-194 openssl crypto-tools sxml-transforms schematra schematra-body-parser schematra-session uri-common http-client medea intarweb~
** html-widgets
This is a CHICKEN Scheme library that also needs to be installed but
it is not available via the ~chicken-install~ repository as I wrote it
for this project and I have not published it externally yet. You can
get the project here: [[https://code.thintz.com/tjhintz/html-widgets][https://code.thintz.com/tjhintz/html-widgets]]
After downloading the project, you can install it by ~cd~ to the
directory it is in and then running ~chicken-install~.

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