/openhack-discourse-deploy

About the discourse deployment.

A deployment of Discourse

This README is for the information about the deployment of a discourse for OpenHack and how to maintain it.

About how to install

1: Go to https://console.cloud.google.com

  • Visit Compute engine -> VM Instances.
  • Create a VM instance of n1-standard-1
  • Create it in finland for quite low climate impact compared to other regions.
  • HTTP + HTTPS
  • ALlow full access to cloud APIs -

About the setup

Discourse software: https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker

Where is it deployed?

  • Google

Domain config:

  • Orderland
  • forum.openhack.io, an A record points to Google VM's external IP

Email config:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md#start-discourse

How was the authentication setup?

About maintenance

To upgrade

We do it by ...

To add a plugin

We do it by ....