Install single-container Sourcegraph with Docker on DigitalOcean

This tutorial shows you how to deploy single-container Sourcegraph with Docker to a single node running on DigitalOcean.

Run Sourcegraph on a Digital Ocean Droplet

  1. Create a new Digital Ocean Droplet. Set theoperating system to be Ubuntu 18.04. For droplet size, we recommend at least 4GB RAM and 2 CPU,but you may need more depending on team size and number of repositories. We recommend you set upSSH access (Authentication > SSH keys) for convenient access to the droplet.

  2. SSH into the droplet, and install Docker: snap install docker

  3. Run the Sourcegraph Docker image as a daemon:

    docker run -d --publish 80:7080 --publish 443:7443 --restart unless-stopped --volume /root/.sourcegraph/config:/etc/sourcegraph --volume /root/.sourcegraph/data:/var/opt/sourcegraph sourcegraph/server:5.0.0

  4. Navigate to the droplet's IP address to finish initializing Sourcegraph. If you have configured aDNS entry for the IP, configure externalURL to reflect that.

After initialization

After initial setup, we recommend you do the following:

  • Restrict the accessibility of ports other than 80 and 443 via CloudFirewalls.
  • Set up TLS/SSL in the NGINX configuration.

Update your Sourcegraph version

To update to the most recent version of Sourcegraph (X.Y.Z), SSH into your instance and run the following:

docker ps # get the $CONTAINER_ID of the running sourcegraph/server container
docker rm -f $CONTAINER_ID
docker run -d ... sourcegraph/server:X.Y.Z