silverbullet/website/Install/Deno Deploy.md

Warning

Experimental This setup is not battle-tested, use it 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 support 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.