Self-host Medplum in Digital Ocean - Open source EHR

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Digital Ocean is a cloud infrastructure provider with data centers worldwide, for Fast and easy healthcare dev

Their main offices are in NY; and they have been friendly supporters of our work and open-source at large

The purpose of this guide is to encourage users to deploy Medplum API & client applications using Digital Ocean

what is Medplum?

Medplum is an open source healthcare development platform,

It provides a REST API, Types for FHIR resources, React components, database migrations, auth and a supportive community

Medplum offers enterprise support & subscriptions, and it is possible to self host

The medplum documentation includes steps & terraform scripts for AWS, we have run instances in AWS and are working to launch our new application using Digital Ocean and publish our experience

[Medplum Homepage]

Medplum API using Digital Ocean App platform

The app platform allows you to launch managed, reliable servers and databases with a few clicks

Recommend for production environments, is easier to rollback, and you can fork the source code and introduce extensions, or deploy a separate client application that interfaces with it

[Digital Ocean App Platform]

We're using Digital Ocean App Platform to deploy a node server easily with Dockerfile,

We use the postgres & redis managed services to safely store our data

Use ENV VARS to set up the correct domains and database passwords

The medplum server users turbo to build, you can fork the repo and add the additional building scripts, keeping your own copy is also helpful to upgrade at your own speed and send pull requests with improvements

[Medplum Dockerfile]

[Digital Ocean Referral Code For $200 in credits]

[Powered by Digital Ocean Logo]

[Digital Ocean Calima medplum Resources screenshot]

Medplum API via Digital Ocean Droplet

It is also possible to run medplum in a droplet, is cheaper and easy to replicate for multiple environments

Droplets are the name for VMs, you can select different size settings and the operative system

Selecting an Ubuntu machine is easy to install postgres, redis, docker, git, and ssh - store document uploads in the VM, or adding external storage volumes

Clone the medplum repo and follow the install instructions, use nginx, docker or nodemon to keep the application running

SSH into the machine periodically to update to a new version

While this requires more work, it also gives you more control on the deployment, and is cheaper

Recommended for developer or test environments

This deployment supports creating Subscriptions for automations

[Medplum install on ubuntu guide]