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Deploying Forem: A humbling experience

Aaron Martinez on June 11, 2021

My first post, Social Media 4.0, was filled with naïve exuberance, as I had just discovered the Forem platform. I was determined to deploy Forem my...
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Akhil Naidu

Thanks to remininding me about render.com. previously when Forem was using elasticsearch as one of its default service, it is hard to configure things in render, but now as there is no elasticsearch things might move more smoothly.

I would like to try and have a sneak peek at how this all will turn out now.

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Aaron Martinez

Render has really come a long way. There is some weirdness if you try to add a custom domain before you finish setting up the Super Admin, but other than that it's been great.

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Akhil Naidu

Nice, but can you shortly explain how your configured. Like did you used docker file or separately created a web service, private service and 2 background workers? As you already have a working instance, I would like to follow your path, rather than re-inventing the wheel. Could you give me a push?

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Aaron Martinez

I can make a docs guide for you guys. Would that be useful?

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Akhil Naidu

It would be great and I can also attach your article over here.

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Muhammed Cetin

It is a great idea.

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Muhammed Cetin

I'm still waiting for a guide to deploy Forem on render.com :) Did you changed your mind?

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Aaron Martinez

I will get started on the documentation today. It is still a very involved process so it could take several days to write it up properly.

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Muhammed Cetin

I'm glad to hear that. Good luck with :)

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Muhammed Cetin

It would be useful, of course :)

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Thanks for sharing this insight into your experience, @ussaaron , and congratulations on getting your Forem up and running!

I'm thirding @akhil and @ce7in in requesting a write up of your experience deploying with Render - we'd love to learn more about what worked/what didn't, especially compared to other providers.

Along with @michaeltharrington and @ioscasey , I'm working on some revised Forem Admin documentation, so if you have any feedback for that UX then feel free to share here or by DM.

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Muhammed Cetin

Thank you so much for your efforts. Are you only working on the Admin documentation, or the whole documentation including the installation docs? I might have some suggestions for the installation docs :)

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Christina Gorton

As Ella mentioned I am helping our systems team with the installation docs for our FOSS offering. They are currently private but should be available for an initial launch soon. Happy to take any suggestions.

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Hey @ce7in ! Personally, my focus is the Admin documentation, but if you have suggestions for the installation docs then this Forem is the place to share them.

I'm pinging @coffeecraftcode because she's more involved with the installation docs, but feel free to DM me if you feel you just have to get things off your chest and I'll be happy to share with the team.

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Aaron Martinez

Will start working on this today. Thank you guys for all the support!