SIMOC’s Deployment

There are currently two available deployments of SIMOC: NGS and beta.

• NGS (https://ngs.simoc.space): official version, sponsored by National Geographic

• Beta (https://beta.simoc.space): intended for testing/experimenting

Testing on Beta is recommended before deploying on NGS.

How to deploy

While the deployment for both locations is automated through GitHub Actions, it must be triggered manually.

In order to deploy:

1. go to https://github.com/overthesun/simoc/actions (you might need privileges)

2. select the “Deploy SIMOC” workflow on the left

3. click on “Run workflow” on the right and specify the frontend and backend branches and the host from the dropdown

4. click on the green “Run workflow” button to start the deployment

5. wait until the deployment is completed and make sure that beta/NGS have been updated successfully

The branches you specify in step 3 can be:

• a named branch (such as master)

• a pull request, by specifying refs/pull/NUM/head (where NUM is the PR number)

• a specific commit ID

master is considered the stable branch for both the simoc and simoc-web repository, and generally only master should be deployed on NGS.

Workflow files

The current worflow and some legacy workflows are defined by files listed at https://github.com/overthesun/simoc/tree/master/.github/workflows.