strykeforce.org

Installation

Find a recent NixOS AMI. Use a x86_64 (t3, not t2) instance type to enable serial console. Install SSH public key during installation and log in using public IP.

nixos-rebuild --flake .#venus --target-host root@venus boot

Copy or restore production data

To restore database from backup, assumes rclone and aws credential files in place:

-- create schema in database strykeforce
CREATE ROLE "strykeforce";
CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS "strykeforce" AUTHORIZATION "strykeforce";

# data
aws s3 cp s3://www.strykeforce.org/sql/strykeforce.sql.gz .
zcat strykeforce.sql.gz | psql -d strykeforce

# images and documents
rclone -v sync s3://www.strykeforce.org/media/ ./media
./manage.py wagtail_update_image_renditions

Server Management

# as root
# strykeforce-manage is installed on the production server
$ strykeforce-manage help