silverbullet/website/Install/Deno Deploy.md

Warning

Experimental This setup is not battle tested, use at your own risk

You can deploy SilverBullet to Deno Deploy for free, and store space content in Deno KV.

Steps

Sign up for a (free) Deno Deploy account and “Create an empty project” there.

Jump to the “Settings”, give your project a nicer name and configure the following environment variables:

• SB_FOLDER: db://
• SB_PORT: 8000
• SB_SYNC_ONLY: 1 (Deno Deploy does not currently supports Workers, so running indexing etc. on the server will not work)
• SB_USER: (e.g. pete:letmein) — this is super important otherwise your space will be open to anybody without any authentication
• SB_AUTH_TOKEN: (Optional) If you would like to migrate existing content from elsewhere (e.g. a local folder) using Sync, you will want to configure an authentication token here (pick something secure).

Make sure you have installed Deno locally on your machine.

Then, install deployctl via:

$ deno install -Arf https://deno.land/x/deploy/deployctl.ts

To deploy, run:

deployctl deploy -p=your-project --entrypoint=https://silverbullet.md/silverbullet.js --include= --prod

Migrating and backing up content

If you want to migrate content from or to your new Deploy-based space, you can use Sync. For this be sure to also configure a SB_AUTH_TOKEN variable.

For backup purposes, it may be wise to synchronize your content regularly this way.