With Twitter being a mess at the moment, I decided to try out Mastodon1 as an alternative. Mastodon is a federated social media platform, built on top

Self-hosting Mastodon on AWS using Nomad

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With Twitter being a mess at the moment, I decided to try out Mastodon1 as an alternative. Mastodon is a federated social media platform, built on top of a protocol called ActivityPub2. It can be self-hosted, letting you own your data, and I wanted to do so using Nomad3 as a cluster orchestrator. This post shows how I did it, and will hopefully inspire you to give Mastodon a try if you haven’t already! You can find me on the fediverse at @[email protected] 🐘.

The first thing to note is that I’m writing this up as inspiration, not as a step-by-step guide. It’s prove that it works, and offer an alternative to more complex setups that use Kubernetes (which Mastodon have a first-party Helm Chart4 for). Your mileage may vary - use your best judgement! If you know of improvements, feel free to send me a message at the link above.

This post is meant to be read with the repository that I’ve open-sourced, containing the actual Nomad task definitions and scripts discussed below: https://github.com/CarrotCodes/nomad-mastodon

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