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44 changes: 43 additions & 1 deletion README.md
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Expand Up @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Functional reactive web and mobile applications, with batteries included. Obelis
- [Default EC2 Deployment](#default-ec2-deployment)
- [Custom Non-EC2 Deployment](#custom-non-ec2-deployment)
- [VirtualBox Deployment](#virtualbox-deployment)
- [DigitalOcean Deployment](#digitalocean-deployment)
- [Locally](#locally)
- [From macOS](#from-macos)
- [Deploying an updated version](#deploying-an-updated-version)
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`module.nix` must contain a Nix *function* that produces a [NixOS module function](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-writing-modules). The top-level function takes deployment configuration as arguments: `hostName`, `adminEmail`, `routeHost`, `enableHttps`, `version`, `exe`, `nixosPkgs`. Most of these are the values you specified during `ob deploy init` and are stored in the deployment repository. `version` is a `git` hash for the app that you're deploying. `exe` is the Linux build of the app (as seen in [Deploying Locally](#locally)). `nixosPkgs` is the package set used to construct the NixOS VM.

The [VirtualBox Deployment](#virtualbox-deployment) section provides an example.
The [VirtualBox Deployment](#virtualbox-deployment) and [DigitalOcean Deployment](#digitalocean-deployment) section provides an example.

#### DigitalOcean Deployment
First we need to create a DigitalOcean compatible "image":

Step 1: Create a file called image.nix, within this file place
```nix
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }: let
config = {
imports = [ "${pkgs.path}/nixos/modules/virtualisation/digital-ocean-image.nix" ];
};
in (pkgs.nixos config).digitalOceanImage
```
Step 2: Then build the image via `nix-build ./image.nix`
Step 3: Upload outputted image to DigitalOcean, and start a droplet

Initialize your obelisk app the same way as EC2:
```bash
cd ~/code/myapp
SERVER=<digitalocean-provided-ip>
ROUTE=https://myapp.com # Accessable app
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ob deploy init \
--ssh-key ~/path/to/ssh/key (ssh keys are managed by digitalocean) \
--hostname $SERVER \
--route $ROUTE \
--admin-email $EMAIL \
~/code/myapp-deploy
```

Next run `cd ~/code/myapp-deploy` to access your newly created depolyment directory, replace the default module.nix in the directory with
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```nix
{ nixosPkgs, ... }: { config, lib, ... }: {
imports = [ "${nixosPkgs.path}/nixos/modules/virtualisation/digital-ocean-image.nix" ];

# You'll probably need to override the host name in some way
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Do we know why this is the case? Can we suggest something more concrete like "In some instances X error may occur and the workaround/resolution/fix is to override the hostname to a fixed/preset/other value..."

networking.hostName = lib.mkForce "<yourhostnamehere>";
}
```

Now you can run `ob deploy push` and watch your app be built (locally) and transferred to the DigitalOcean droplet

#### VirtualBox Deployment

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