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🚀 Deployment

Deploy your curate.fun instance to production ⚡

🌥️ Deploying to Fly.io​

The backend service can be deployed to Fly.io with SQLite support.

📋 Prerequisites​

Install the Fly CLI:

# 🍎 macOS
brew install flyctl

# 🪟 Windows
powershell -Command "iwr https://fly.io/install.ps1 -useb | iex"

# 🐧 Linux
curl -L https://fly.io/install.sh | sh

🔑 Authentication​

Sign up and authenticate with Fly.io:

fly auth signup
# or
fly auth login

🛫 Deployment Steps​

  1. 🎬 Initialize your Fly.io application:
bun run deploy:init

This will:

  • 📦 Create the Fly App
  • 💾 Set up LiteFS volume (LiteFS Speedrun)
  • 🔄 Attach Consul for LiteFS cluster management
  1. ⚙️ Configure environment variables:
# 🐦 Twitter Authentication
fly secrets set TWITTER_USERNAME=your_twitter_username
fly secrets set TWITTER_PASSWORD=your_twitter_password
fly secrets set TWITTER_EMAIL=your_twitter_email

# 📢 Distribution Services
fly secrets set TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=your_bot_token
fly secrets set TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_ID=your_channel_id
  1. 🚀 Deploy the application:
bun run deploy

🏗️ Architecture​

  • ✨ Distributed SQLite using LiteFS
  • 🔄 Automatic file replication across instances
  • 🎯 Primary/replica configuration using Consul
  • 🔒 HTTPS enabled by default

🔍 Details​

  • 📍 Primary instance (LAX region) handles write operations
  • 🔄 Replicas automatically sync data from primary
  • 🎛️ Consul manages primary/replica coordination
  • ⚡ Automatic failover if primary becomes unavailable

📁 Key Files​

  • fly.toml: Main Fly.io configuration
  • litefs.yml: LiteFS configuration
  • Dockerfile: Container and LiteFS setup

📊 Monitoring​

Monitor your deployment:

# 👀 View deployment status
fly status

# 📝 View logs
fly logs

# 🖥️ Access dashboard
fly dashboard

🔧 Troubleshooting​

Common issues and solutions:

  1. 🗄️ Container issues

    # Explore container
    fly ssh console

    # Verify Consul
    fly consul status

    # Check status
    fly logs

  2. 💻 Scale up or downtown

    # Increase count (# is number of machines)
    fly scale count #

    # Check distribution
    fly scale show

📚 For more help: