Deploying

This project is hosted on Render, which offers a free and simple way to host a web app with a single service.

Deploy with Render

To deploy the app on Render, follow this procedure:

  1. Create a new Web Service

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  1. Build and deploy from a Git repository

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  1. Connect a repository

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Connect to GitHub / GitLab, or provide the URL of your public repository.

  1. Configure the Web Service

Specify the name of the project, the main branch of the project’s repository, and the runtime as Docker.

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  1. Configure necessary environment variables

See this section for more details about the necessary environment variables.

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  1. Configure Docker

Specify the relative path of the Dockerfile and disable auto-deploy.

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  1. Deploy the website by clicking on the dedicated button at the bottom of the page.

Administrate with Render

Once the website is deployed, it will become available in your dashboard:

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Then, you’ll have access to the administration panel of Render, offering you the possibility to administate the deployed website:

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Automate the Deployment

To relaunch automated deployment from an external service (such as a CI/CD pipeline), you’ll need to get a Deploy hook, which is a URL to make requests to, in order to tell Render to relaunch the deployment of the website from your repository.

To get the webhook, go to Settings / Build and Deploy and copy the URL in the “Deploy hook” section:

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Warning

Ensure to keep the URL secret.

Then, to relaunch the build and deployment of your app, just send a request to the given deploy hook:

curl https://deploy/hook/url