Release v2.2.0 · ayeshrodz/slonbase

slonbase.com, and an installation that starts from a bare server.

install.sh: curl -fsSL https://slonbase.com/install.sh | sudo sh takes a Debian,
Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, Rocky or Alma server to a working instance: it installs PostgreSQL when
there is none (a 14 or newer; on RHEL 8 and 9 it enables the 16 stream and moves localhost
logins from ident to passwords), creates a role and a database for slonbase with a generated
password (never touching an existing role or database), adds the signed repository, installs
the package and creates the first superuser. It prints each step and the sign-in at the end,
takes its choices from environment variables (SLONBASE_EMAIL, SLONBASE_DATABASE_URL, ...)
and is safe to run again. It is checked with ShellCheck in CI.
A guide from zero: the installation guide starts with that command, then does each step by
hand (PostgreSQL, the role and database, the package, the setup), and ends with a check that
it works and a troubleshooting table. Docker and Docker Compose are their own sections.

The project lives at https://slonbase.com (the apt and dnf repositories, the docs and the
page). Old github.io addresses redirect, so existing repository entries keep working.
The documentation, README, site and every dashboard screenshot are brought up to date with the
current release (the screenshots were from 2.0, before the layered surfaces); the package's
post-install message says that a database is needed and points at the installer.

Install

Verify downloads with sha256sum --ignore-missing -c SHA256SUMS. See the installation guide.