Cloud Deployment

Para can be deployed to any cloud provider that supports Docker containers or Java applications.

Para Cloud fully managed

Don’t want to deal with servers and performance issues? We offer managed Para cloud hosting. Para Cloud is free for developers! If you’re developing a new app, you can store up to 10 000 objects, for free. Browse and manage your users and objects, do backups and edit permissions with a few clicks in the web console. By upgrading to a premium account you will be able to scale you projects up and down in seconds and manage multiple apps.

On Para Cloud you get:

Flat pricing, per app
Scalable & affordable BaaS
Data encryption at rest
Web admin console for easy configuration

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Hostinger

AWS

EC2 & Lightsail

Open the Lightsail console or the EC2 console.
Choose a “Linux” AMI (e.g. “Ubuntu 24.04 LTS” or later)

Click “Add launch script” (user data) and copy the contents of installer.sh:

installer.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -e -x

# Lightsail/DigitalOcean installer script for Ubuntu
VERSION="1.50.2"
PORT="8080"
WORKDIR="/home/ubuntu/para"
mkdir -p $WORKDIR/lib

# Use the GitHub release asset, not the Maven Central artifact. The release JAR is built with the
# `fatjar` profile, which gives it a Spring Boot PropertiesLauncher and bakes in the default
# plugins (SQL and Lucene). The Maven Central artifact is a plain JarLauncher with no plugins and
# ignores -Dloader.path, so it cannot load anything from lib/.
JARURL="https://github.com/Erudika/para/releases/download/${VERSION}/para-${VERSION}.jar"
sfile="/etc/systemd/system/para.service"

apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget openjdk-21-jre &&
wget -O para.jar ${JARURL} && \
mv para.jar $WORKDIR && \
chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu ${WORKDIR} && \
chmod +x ${WORKDIR}/para.jar
touch ${WORKDIR}/application.conf && \
chown ubuntu:ubuntu ${WORKDIR}/application.conf

# Feel free to modify the Para configuration here
cat << EOF > ${WORKDIR}/application.conf
para.app_name = "Para"
para.port = 8080
para.env = "production"
EOF

touch $sfile
cat << EOF > $sfile
[Unit]
Description=Para
After=syslog.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=30
StartLimitBurst=2
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=${WORKDIR}
SyslogIdentifier=Para
# JVM -D flags must precede -jar, otherwise the JVM treats them as arguments to Para.
# -Dloader.path=lib puts the lib/ folder on the classpath; this only works because the release
# JAR uses PropertiesLauncher. Put JDBC drivers there, e.g. lib/mysql-connector-j.jar.
ExecStart=java -Dconfig.file=application.conf -Dloader.path=lib -jar para.jar
User=ubuntu
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1s
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

# This is optional. These rules might interfere with other web server configurations like nginx and certbot.
#iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port ${PORT} && \
#iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -o lo -j REDIRECT --to-port ${PORT}

systemctl enable para.service && \
systemctl start para.service

Download the default SSH key pair or upload your own
Choose the 512MB instance or larger (1GB recommended)
Wait for the instance to start and open the IP address in your browser at port 8000

Elatic Beanstalk

Clone the Para project repository change directory to it
Terminal window
```
git clone https://github.com/Erudika/para.git
cd para
```
Build the JAR file:
Terminal window
```
mvn -Pfatjar package
```
Create a Buildfile
Buildfile
```
build: mvn -Pfatjar clean package
```
Create a Procfile
Procfile
```
web: java -jar target/para-server.jar
```
↗ Install EB CLI
Initialize your EB CLI repository with the eb init command:
Terminal window
```
eb init -p corretto para-server --region us-east-2
```
Create an environment and deploy your application to it with eb create:
Terminal window
```
eb create para-server
```