In the past few days, I’ve seen a number of people having trouble getting Lemmy set up on their own servers. That motivated me to create Lemmy-Easy-Deploy, a dead-simple solution to deploying Lemmy using Docker Compose under the hood.

To accommodate people new to Docker or self hosting, I’ve made it as simple as I possibly could. Edit the config file to specify your domain, then run the script. That’s it! No manual configuration is needed. Your self hosted Lemmy instance will be up and running in about a minute or less. Everything is taken care of for you. Random passwords are created for Lemmy’s microservices, and HTTPS is handled automatically by Caddy.

Updates are automatic too! Run the script again to detect and deploy updates to Lemmy automatically.

If you are an advanced user, plenty of config options are available. You can set this to compile Lemmy from source if you want, which is useful for trying out Release Candidate versions. You can also specify a Cloudflare API token, and if you do, HTTPS certificates will use the DNS challenge instead. This is helpful for Cloudflare proxy users, who can have issues with HTTPS certificates sometimes.

Try it out and let me know what you think!

https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

  • @sideoneEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Hey @[email protected], I’m trying this on an Aarm64 instance and the script says it only works on v0.17.4. Is there a plan to update to 0.18?

    EDIT: the script fails for 0.17.4 here:

    => ERROR [lemmy builder 6/7] RUN cargo build --release 1183.5s

    Build timer continues but CPU usage drops off. Any ideas where I’ve gone wrong?

    • ubergeek77OPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Before this week, I would have told you no. But I have big plans for the 0.18.1 update.

      The Lemmy team has completely broken ARM support with seemingly no plan to support it again. They switched to a base Docker image that only supports x86_64. This is why your build fails. I still don’t understand why they would move from a multiarch image to an x86_64-only one.

      I’ve been working on this for about a week, and just yesterday I finished a GitHub Actions pipeline that builds multiarch images for x64/arm/arm64. I currently have successful builds for 0.18.1-rc.2. In a future update for my script, I will have it use these, that way ARM users don’t need to compile it anymore. I just ask for a little patience, I haven’t been able to do any work on Lemmy Easy Deploy since I’ve been working on this pipeline :)

      I also do want to qualify - don’t get your hopes up until you see it running for yourself. Ultimately, I am just a DevOps guy, not a Lemmy maintainer. I haven’t tested my ARM images yet, and while I did my best to get these to build properly, I can’t fix everything. If anything else breaks due to running on ARM, it will be up to the Lemmy team to fix those issues (which is not likely anytime soon, if their updated x86_64 Dockerfiles are any indication).

      But, fingers crossed everything goes smoothly! Keep an eye out for an update, I’m working hard on it, hopefully I can get it out in time for 0.18.1!

      EDIT:

      Putting my notes on this progress here:

      https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy/issues/17

      • @sideoneEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Hey, appreciate all your work so far. No worries if it’s not going to work :-)

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        Thanks for the update, I updated to 0.18.0 a few days ago and it worked perfect. I’m excited for the next update, hopefully the Lemmy devs dont make big updates like this in future releases.

    • ubergeek77OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Try again with the latest version of Lemmy Easy Deploy.

      I am now building multiarch images for 0.18.x, and my script will now default to my multiarch images, so there is no longer a need to build it yourself :)

      • @sideoneEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I’ll give it a go on Monday, cheers!