AppFlowy-Cloud/doc/deployment.md

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Deployment

  • AppFlowy-Cloud is designed to be easily self deployed for self managed cloud storage
  • The following document will walk you through the steps to deploy your own AppFlowy-Cloud

Hardware Requirements

  • Because AppFlowy-Cloud will have to be running persistently (or at least when one of the user is using), we recommend using cloud compute services (as your host server) such as
  • Amazon EC2 or
  • Azure Virtual Machines
  • Minimum 2GB Ram (4GB Recommended)
  • Ports 80/443 available

Software Requirements

Ensure you have Docker Compose installed on your host server. Follow the official guidelines for a reliable setup:

Note for AWS Users: Here is a step by step guide to self host AppFlowy Cloud on AWS EC2 instance: EC2 Guide

Steps

1. Getting source files

  • Clone this repository into your host server and cd into it
git clone https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy-Cloud
cd AppFlowy-Cloud

2. Preparing the configuration

  • This is perhaps the most important part of the deployment process, please read carefully.
  • It is required that that is a .env file in the root directory of the repository.
  • To get started, copy the template dev.env as .env using the following shell commands:
cp dev.env .env
  • There will be values in the .env that needs to be change according to your needs
  • Kindly read the following comments for each set of settings
# This is the secret key for authentication, please change this and keep the key safe
GOTRUE_JWT_SECRET=hello456

# This determine if the user will be user automatically be confirmed(verified) when they sign up
# If this is enabled, it requires a clicking a confirmation link in the email after a user signs up.
# If you do not have SMTP service set up, or any other OAuth2 method, you should set this to true,
# or else no user will be able to be authenticated
GOTRUE_MAILER_AUTOCONFIRM=true

# if you enable mail confirmation, you need to set the SMTP configuration below
GOTRUE_SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
GOTRUE_SMTP_PORT=465
GOTRUE_SMTP_USER=user1@example.com
# this is typically an app password that you would need to generate: https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords
GOTRUE_SMTP_PASS=somesecretkey
# You can leave this field same as GOTRUE_SMTP_USER
GOTRUE_SMTP_ADMIN_EMAIL=user1@example.com

# This is the email account that is the admin account
# which has the highest privilege level, typically use to
# manage other users, such as user creation, deletion, password change, etc
GOTRUE_ADMIN_EMAIL=admin@example.com
GOTRUE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password

# This is the address of the authentication server
# which is the same as the public IP/hostname of your host server
# when an email confirmation link is click, this is the host that user's devices
# will try to connect to
API_EXTERNAL_URL=http://localhost:9998

# 2 fields below are only relevant for development, can ignore
DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:password@localhost:5433/postgres
SQLX_OFFLINE=false

# File Storage
# This affects where the files will be uploaded.
# By default, Minio will be deployed as file storage server # and it will use the host server's disk storage.
# You can also AWS S3 by setting USE_MINIO as false
USE_MINIO=true                    # determine if minio-server is used
# MINIO_URL=http://localhost:9000 # change this to use minio from a different host (e.g. maybe you self host Minio somewhere)
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=minioadmin
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=minioadmin
AWS_S3_BUCKET=appflowy
AWS_REGION=us-east-1              # This option only applicable for AWS S3

For authentication details, refer to the Authentication documentation. You will need to update the redirect URI to match your host server's public IP or hostname, such as http://<your-host-server-public-ip-or-hostname>/callback. If using localhost, then just keep the default value.

GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_GOOGLE_ENABLED=true
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_GOOGLE_SECRET=
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_GOOGLE_REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:9998/callback

# GitHub OAuth2
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_GITHUB_ENABLED=true
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=your-github-client-id
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_GITHUB_SECRET=your-github-secret
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_GITHUB_REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:9998/callback

# Discord OAuth2
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_DISCORD_ENABLED=true
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_DISCORD_CLIENT_ID=your-discord-client-id
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_DISCORD_SECRET=your-discord-secret
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_DISCORD_REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:9998/callback

3. Running the services

Start and run AppFlowy-Cloud

  • The following command will build and start the AppFlowy-Cloud.
docker compose up -d
  • Please check that all the services are running
docker ps -a

When using the docker compose up -d command without specifying a tag, Docker Compose will pull the latest tag for the appflowy_cloud and admin_frontend images from Docker Hub by default. If you've set the BACKEND_VERSION environment variable, it will pull the specified version instead. If BACKEND_VERSION is not set, Docker Compose defaults to using the latest tag.

4. Reconfiguring and redeployment

  • It is very common to reconfigure and restart. To do so, simply edit the .env and do docker compose up -d again

Ports

  • After Deployment, you should see that AppFlowy-Cloud is serving 2 ports
  • 443 (https)
  • 80 (http)
  • Your host server need to expose either of the port

SSL Certificate

  • To use your own SSL certications for https, replace certificate.crt and private_key.key with your own in nginx/ssl/ directory

Usage of AppFlowy Application with AppFlowy Cloud