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permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/gotosocial-on-fly-io"
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title: "Deploying GoToSocial on fly.io"
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published_date: "2022-11-21 22:50:00 +0100"
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layout: post.liquid
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data:
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route: blog
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---
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Everyone and their dog is getting on [ActivityPub].
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Yes, [me too][hachyderm], for now.
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Mastodon is what everyone is going for,
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but running an instance is kinda resource intensive
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and I really don't want to be responsible for yet another service.
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Mastodon is not the only implementation of ActivityPub though.
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[GoToSocial] is another.
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So why not try it?
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Let's deploy it on [fly.io].
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[ActivityPub]: https://github.com/badboy/gotosocial-fly
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[hachyderm]: https://hachyderm.io/@jer
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[gotosocial]: https://gotosocial.org/
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[git]: https://github.com/badboy/gotosocial-fly
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[fly.io]: https://fly.io/
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We start by creating a new Fly app.
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We stick to a generated name and put it into Frankfurt.
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```bash
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$ mkdir -p Documents/gotosocial-fly
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$ cd Documents/gotosocial-fly
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$ fly launch
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Creating app in /Users/jer/Documents/gotosocial-fly
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Scanning source code
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Could not find a Dockerfile, nor detect a runtime or framework from source code. Continuing with a blank app.
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? Choose an app name (leave blank to generate one):
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automatically selected personal organization: jer
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? Choose a region for deployment: Frankfurt, Germany (fra)
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Created app young-darkness-8503 in organization personal
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Wrote config file fly.toml
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```
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GoToSocial is available on [Docker].
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We create a new `Dockerfile`, use the upstream image, add our configuration file and launch it.
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```Dockerfile
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FROM superseriousbusiness/gotosocial:latest
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WORKDIR /gotosocial/storage
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WORKDIR /gotosocial
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ADD config.yaml /gotosocial/
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CMD ["--config-path", "/gotosocial/config.yaml"]
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```
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The GoToSocial Dockerfile already [specifies an entrypoint][entrypoint],
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so it's enough to specify the additional arguments using `CMD`.
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[docker]: https://hub.docker.com/r/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
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[entrypoint]: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/blob/b153808472655cc73245ad60a2aa38bf04833367/Dockerfile#L47
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Last thing missing is the configuration file.
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We create a `config.yaml` based on the [example].
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The full file [is in the repository][git-config.yaml].
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The important bits are the host, database config and disabling signup.
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Pretty much everything else is left to the defaults.
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```toml
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host: "young-darkness-8503.fly.dev"
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db-type: "sqlite"
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db-address: "/gotosocial/storage/sqlite.db"
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accounts-registration-open: false
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```
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The host should be the random name `fly launch` chose earlier or your own domain when you add it to the app.
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[example]: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/blob/b153808472655cc73245ad60a2aa38bf04833367/example/config.yaml
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[git-config.yaml]: https://github.com/badboy/gotosocial-fly/blob/main/config.yaml
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Now we can deploy the app.
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```
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$ fly deploy
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==> Verifying app config
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--> Verified app config
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==> Building image
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(cut)
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--> Pushing image done
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image: registry.fly.io/young-darkness-8503:deployment-01GJE1E4HW25RAND71YG1637E5
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image size: 65 MB
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==> Creating release
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--> release v1 created
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--> You can detach the terminal anytime without stopping the deployment
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==> Monitoring deployment
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1 desired, 1 placed, 1 healthy, 0 unhealthy [health checks: 1 total, 1 passing]
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--> v1 deployed successfully
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```
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The app was successfully deployed and should be reachable at [young-darkness-8503.fly.dev][flydev],
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where we'll see ... not much:
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[flydev]: https://young-darkness-8503.fly.dev/
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What's missing is a user.
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We need to create one using the command line tooling.
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First SSH into the machine:
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```
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$ fly ssh console
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Connecting to fdaa:0:252b:a7b:67:4911:d8ec:2... complete
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/ #
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```
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Then we create a new user, confirm it and finally give it admin rights.
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You can find these steps [in the GoToSocial docs](https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/installation_guide/binary/#5-create-and-confirm-your-user) as well.
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```
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/ # /gotosocial/gotosocial --config-path /gotosocial/config.yaml admin account create --username jer
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--email jer@example.org --password 'securePassword1'
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(cut)
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/ # /gotosocial/gotosocial --config-path /gotosocial/config.yaml admin account confirm --username jer
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(cut)
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/ # /gotosocial/gotosocial --config-path /gotosocial/config.yaml admin account promote --username jer
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(cut)
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```
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The profile is now visible at <https://young-darkness-8503.fly.dev/@jer>.
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GoToSocial doesn't come with its own web client, but we can use [Pinafore],
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a small and fast web client (it does have an [admin interface] though).
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We use the same domain to login, then use the email address and password from the `account create` command above.
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[pinafore]: https://pinafore.social/
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[admin interface]: https://young-darkness-8503.fly.dev/admin
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That post is also visible on young-darkness-8503 directly:
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[][first post]
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[first post]: https://young-darkness-8503.fly.dev/@jer/statuses/01GJE2E4MDR2R0GEH1N9KPRKQH
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## What's next?
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This is a test deploy.
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I'm not going to keep it up for forever.
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At the very least I need a proper domain on it.
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And then the storage should probably be on a [Fly volume][fly-volumes]
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so it survives re-deploys.
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GoToSocial is alpha software.
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It sure is missing some features (though I really don't know what).
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It might also have lots of bugs.
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Decide for yourself if you want to run it!
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[fly-volumes]: https://fly.io/docs/reference/volumes
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