https://forem.dev/foremteam/introducing-forem-self-host-246k Skip to content [ ] Log in Create account Forem Creators and Builders Forem Creators and Builders is a community of 1,136 amazing creators Let's Build Forem Create new account Log in Home Sign In/Up Tags About Code of Conduct Contact More... Privacy Policy Terms of use loading... [https://forem.dev/fo] Copied to Clipboard Share to Twitter Share to LinkedIn Share to Reddit Share to Hacker News Share to Facebook Share Post via... Report Abuse Cover image for Introducing Forem Self-Host Forem Core Team profile image Forem Core Team Introducing Forem Self-Host #selfhost #meta #product [Ny5wbmc] forem forem [Ny5wbmc] forem Follow * Joined Aug 10, 2020 Jul 20 3 min read Back in May of 2020, Ben shared an article on dev.to: one of the fastest growing communities of software developers on the internet. This wasn't unusual for Ben - as a software developer himself and the creator of DEV it's safe to call him a frequent poster there. But this post was a little different because it served as the official announcement of Forem: the open-source community software that DEV is built on. It was our company's first public commitment to provide you with the same flexible and transparent tools that we used to spark our first Forem success story. Since that day in May, a lot has happened. We've helped launch a number of new Forem communities including CodeNewbie Community, Community Club, and a handful of others. We've also grown our core team, had many fantastic discussions right here, and lots more. Whether you filled out the Forem early interest form or you've been following along on Forem.dev, the fact remains that you have been patiently waiting for the next big moment in our community's trajectory... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, we're sharing a new milestone in the evolution of our community-empowering tools: Forem Self-Host. We're excited to finally deliver on the promise we made last May to truly open up our community software for the world to use. Forem Self-Host allows you to spin up your own Forem community using our open guidelines available here for an experience that's entirely yours. You'll see the entire breakdown of the process in the repository, but here's a preview: * Forem Self-Host uses Fedora CoreOS as the host operating system and containers powered by Podman with systemd. * We support three cloud providers: DigitalOcean, AWS, and Google Cloud (for now) A- side from the cost to use your chosen cloud provider, Forem Self-Host is free GitHub logo forem / selfhost Selfhost your Forem Community on your own infrastructure Forem Self-Host This is a repo for setting up a free, self-managed install of Forem on a Fedora CoreOS VM running on one of a few popular cloud providers (current support for DigitalOcean, AWS, and Google Cloud). Local development is also supported using a VM on Linux via QEMU. Please note that Forem is a complex piece of software, and hosting and managing it in a cloud environment is non-trivial. While the recipes and scripts here are expected to work for the limited scenarios we tested against, use and modification of the recipes, or altering the deployed environment, may require familiarity with the following layers of the tech stack we built with, and ongoing maintenance of the deployed system may require interacting with any of these technologies: * Ansible * Your chosen cloud provider - both CLI and UI use * Python 3 and pip3 * systemd * Podman * General Linux... View on GitHub Forem Self-Host Tutorials It's an understatement to say that our team has been eager to announce Forem Self-Host with all of you. To that end, @coffeecraftcode (Developer Advocate at Forem), has prepared a number of helpful tutorials to supplement our quickstart guide. Forem Core Team [Z3cvWWk1d2] Self Host: Quick Start in Depth Christina Gorton for Forem Core Team Jul 20 5 min read #selfhost #tutorial Forem Core Team [Z3cvWWk1d2] Installing Forem Requirements for MacOS Christina Gorton for Forem Core Team Jul 20 2 min read #selfhost #tutorial Forem Core Team [Z3cvWWk1d2] Forem AWS Setup on MacOS Christina Gorton for Forem Core Team Jul 20 4 min read #selfhost #tutorial #aws Forem Core Team [Z3cvWWk1d2] Forem DigitalOcean Setup on MacOS Christina Gorton for Forem Core Team Jul 20 3 min read #selfhost #tutorial #digitalocean Forem Core Team [Z3cvWWk1d2] Forem Google Cloud Setup on MacOS Christina Gorton for Forem Core Team Jul 20 4 min read #selfhost #tutorial #googlecloud Questions? Feedback? Forem Self-Host is still in beta with some expected and, likely, unexpected issues to resolve, but we look forward to tackling them in partnership with you. We expect you to have questions, feedback, and pain-points as you get started with Forem Self-Host. We view these as healthy and integral to the process of building an open-source approach that works for all communities. Our goal is for everyone to learn from one another as you build a diverse new group of self-hosted Forems. Please post any questions or feedback you'd like out in the open, right here on Forem.dev. You can use this template or simply tag your post with #selfhost + #help for questions or #selfhost + #feedback for feedback. We urge you all to share your questions and feedback publicly, so that Forem creators are able to learn from one another. We'd love to hear about your Forem. If you'd like to share your story with us, you can email us anytime at hello@forem.com. Here's to your thriving self-hosted Forem to be --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Read Ben's thoughts on Forem Self-Host. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Forem for Enterprise Teams If you belong to an organization that is interested in building a dedicated community around your services, self-hosting your own Forem might not make sense. For these groups, we offer Forem Cloud: a version of Forem that is hosted entirely by our team with priority support and professional resources for managing and scaling your community. Interested? Get in touch with us here. Discussion (7) Subscribe pic [ ] [ ] Upload image [Upload] [ ] Templates Personal Moderator loading Create template Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Submit Preview Dismiss ben profile image Ben Halpern Ben Halpern [LmpwZWc] Ben Halpern A Canadian software developer who thinks he's funny. He/Him. Follow * Email bendhalpern@gmail.com * Work Webmaster at Forem * Location New York * Joined Aug 5, 2020 * Jul 20 * Copy link * * Hide * * * Let's gooo 8 likes Reply lee profile image Lee Wynne Lee Wynne [ZC5qcGVn] Lee Wynne Budding Forem entrepreneur @flowstate @thismmalife @theelasticguru Follow * Location UK, Devon * Joined Aug 9, 2020 * Jul 20 * Copy link * * Hide * * * This is big! This is REALLY BIG! I am playing already, love the setup. A fully distributed open source community built on the world's most advanced, innovative and progressive community platform, all running in your favourite Cloud, fully extensible. [?] 5 likes Reply michaeltharrington profile image Michael Tharrington Michael Tharrington [Yi5qcGc] Michael Tharrington I'm here to have a good time helping folks build communities on Forem. I also really like music! Follow * Work Community Manager at DEV/Forem * Location Pittsboro, NC * Joined Aug 5, 2020 * Jul 20 * Copy link * * Hide * * * Awww yeah!! So siked for this launch. We urge you all to share your questions and feedback publicly, so that Forem creators are able to learn from one another. I love how meta this all is, haha! Create your own Forem, hop onto forem.dev (which is also a Forem!) and convene with other Forem creators plus ask questions/leave feedback for the Forem team. Anybody got any questions? I'm here for'em. 5 likes Reply akhil profile image Akhil Naidu Akhil Naidu [ZmYucG5n] Akhil Naidu I am an Engineering Physics graduate from IIT Guwahati, but merely not restricted to Physics itself. In the past few years, I involved in many Cybersecurity blogging and now on Open-source. Follow * Email admin@leewardslope.com * Work Founder at Leewardslope * Location Vizag, India * Education IIT Guwahati, Enginnering Physics Graduate * Joined Aug 17, 2020 * Jul 20 * Copy link * * Hide * * * The new Forum revolution => Forem 6 likes Reply ellativity profile image Ella Ang (she/her/elle) Ella Ang (she/her/elle) [MGUuanBn] Ella Ang (she/her/elle) A work in progress... trying to enrich others' lives and build the world we want to live in Follow * Work Community Associate at Forem * Location Cotes-d'Armor, France * Education University of Strathclyde (Community Education) + University of Essex (Philosophy + Politics) * Joined Feb 11, 2021 * Jul 20 * Copy link * * Hide * * * Beyond excited for where this will lead... 4 likes Reply gracie profile image Gracie Gregory Gracie Gregory [NjIuanBlZw] Gracie Gregory Follow * Work Content Manager at Forem * Location Portland, Oregon * Joined Apr 21, 2021 * Jul 20 * Copy link * * Hide * * * Tree growing from lightbulb art 4 likes Reply smaffulli profile image Stefano Maffulli Stefano Maffulli [YzAuanBlZw] Stefano Maffulli Follow * Joined Jan 2, 2021 * Jul 20 * Copy link * * Hide * * * Splendid! Congratulations for the milestone 3 likes Reply Code of Conduct * Report abuse Read next inhuofficial profile image A bug, that may not be a bug, but feels strange Graham - Jul 5 coffeecraftcode profile image Feature Request: Hide Edit Link to Anyone Without Permission Christina Gorton - Jun 1 akhil profile image Unable to submit sitemap. Akhil Naidu - Jul 1 thegreengreek profile image Enable webmentions Sia - Jun 18 [MzAwMWFmZT] Forem Core Team Follow We are building the independent community web through open source. Contribute More from Forem Core Team Changelog: Accessibility, Features, Refactors, and Optimizations #meta #opensource #changelog Upcoming changes to the Home Experience #product #home #feedback Creator Navigation & Route Restructure #changelog #admintooling #product Forem Creators and Builders - A place where we build Forem together Built on Forem -- the open source software that powers DEV and other inclusive communities. Made with love and Ruby on Rails. 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