By wesbos
Just trying to deploy an app to the new DO App platform.
My git repo has backend and frontend folders in it.
So - a two part question:
- How do I tell digital ocean to that the app lives in the
backendfolder? - Is it possible to hook up two instances to a single repo? I realize I can make a custom dockerfile and serve up both, but I rather not do that. I’m okay with the 2x payment.
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@wesbos 👋
This is possible, but you’ll need to use doctl and submit a custom app spec YAML — we don’t yet support it in the UI.
Check out our sample-monorepo as an example of this.
The spec in your case might look something like this:
name: sample-monorepo
static_sites:
- name: frontend
github:
repo: digitalocean/sample-monorepo
branch: main
deploy_on_push: true
source_dir: frontend
routes:
- path: /
services:
- name: backend
github:
repo: digitalocean/sample-monorepo
branch: main
deploy_on_push: true
source_dir: backend
routes:
- path: /api
The source_dir field, specifically, is the mechanism by which this is achieved.
You can then submit it using doctl with:
doctl apps create --spec .do/app.yaml
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