Deployement on cloud providers

Recontent.app can be deployed to any cloud provider (eg. AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean) which offers a docker-based platform & postgres databases.

For example, here are services that can be used on various cloud providers:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • AWS ECS

  • AWS RDS

• Microsoft Azure

  • Azure container apps

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL

• Digital Ocean

  • Digital Ocean App platform

  • Digital Ocean Databases

Here's an example step-by-step guide to follow on Digital Ocean to run Recontent.app.

Digital Ocean

Create a new project

Create a new database

• Go to Manage > Databases

• Click "Create database"

• Choose a datacenter region

• Select "PostgreSQL" as database engine

• Update database configuration based on your needs

• Click "Create Database Cluster"

Start a recontentapp-migrate docker container as described in "Setting up the database"

• Make sure to use the connection string available on the database page

Create a new app

• Go to Manage > App Platform

• Click "Create App"

• Select "GitHub Container Registry" as service provider

• Enter "recontentapp/recontentapp" as Repository

• Enter "0.8.1" as Image tag

• Click "Next"

• Ensure "Web Service" is selected as Resource Type

• Click "Next"

• Add environment variables as described in "Running Recontent.app"

  • Make sure to add PORT 8080

• Click "Next"

• Review info & click "Next"

• Once the app is started & its public URL has been generated, make sure to edit the APP_URL & API_URL environment variables. For example, if clownfish-app-zbfol is the name of your app, https://clownfish-app-zbfol.ondigitalocean.app should be used.