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Outline

Team knowledge base with Postgres, Redis and local file storage (Google sign-in).

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Postgrespostgres:17
Redisredis:7-alpine
Outlineoutlinewiki/outline:latest

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What gets deployed

3 services in the environment you pick, on the private network of the project.

About this template

outlinewiki/outline:latest + PostgreSQL + Redis. Outline needs an identity provider: supply Google OAuth credentials (or set OIDC_* / SLACK_* variables afterwards).

Postgres

Image: postgres:17

Port 5432/tcp
10 GB volume at /var/lib/postgresql/data
1 vCPU · 1 GB

Redis

Image: redis:7-alpine

Port 6379/tcp
2 GB volume at /data
0.5 vCPU · 512 MB

redis-server --appendonly yes --dir /data

Outline

Image: outlinewiki/outline:latest

Port 3000/http
Public domain with TLS
10 GB volume at /var/lib/outline/data
1 vCPU · 1 GB
/_health

Variables

Generated secrets never leave the platform; references are resolved on the private network. Anything marked required is asked for at deploy time.

Postgres

Name	Value
POSTGRES_USER	postgresSuperuser name
POSTGRES_PASSWORD	generated (password)Generated at deploy
POSTGRES_DB	outlineDatabase created on first start
PGDATA	/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
DATABASE_URL	postgresql://${{self.POSTGRES_USER}}:${{self.POSTGRES_PASSWORD}}@${{self.SKIFFLY_PRIVATE_DOMAIN}}:5432/${{self.POSTGRES_DB}}Connection string on the private network

Redis

Name	Value
REDIS_URL	redis://${{self.SKIFFLY_PRIVATE_DOMAIN}}:6379Private network only, no auth

Outline

Name	Value
NODE_ENV	production
SECRET_KEY	generated (hex64)
UTILS_SECRET	generated (hex64)
DATABASE_URL	${{Postgres.DATABASE_URL}}
PGSSLMODE	disable
REDIS_URL	${{Redis.REDIS_URL}}
URL	https://${{self.SKIFFLY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}
PORT	3000
FILE_STORAGE	local
FILE_STORAGE_LOCAL_ROOT_DIR	/var/lib/outline/data
FILE_STORAGE_UPLOAD_MAX_SIZE	262144000
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID	required at deployGoogle OAuth client ID (Outline requires an SSO provider)
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET	required at deployGoogle OAuth client secret
FORCE_HTTPS	false

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