Creating a couple of videos highlighting Taylor’s 1-click Mastodon installer for Reclaim Cloud has been on my to-do for too long, so this week I knocked it out. I did two quick videos, one taking you through the basic install. While the installer is a Docker container and most of the heavy lifting is done for you, there are still some manual pieces like pointing a domain, creating an admin account, and restarting the container. Taylor’s guide goes through these points in details, so this is really just a video supplement to the docs.
The follow-up video is focused on where and how to update the environment variables in the .env file. You use the .env file to add details for transactional email like Mailgun, as well as to point the media storage to a third-party S3-compatible service like Digital Ocean’s Spaces. Once again, this video servers to reinforce the guide we already have for doing this, so if the video fails you turn back to the guide.
The final piece are demonstrating the simple set of commands to upgrade Mastodon version. I am working with Taylor to make sure that is working as expected, and once I do I will be sure to finish off this trilogy of Mastodon 1-click awesome.
