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Eilean enables you to host your own digital island, where you control your own online infrastructure.

     

       
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Eilean aims to be a optioned framework to allow the simple deployment of these services on a single machine, and a library of documentation for common issues in managing runtime state like secrets, databases, and upgrades.

     

       
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By using Nix, Eilean modules are extensive to other configurations outside this deployment scenario, such as offloading a particularly resource heavy service to a dedicated machine.

     

       
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For instructions on getting started see [docs/getting_started.md](./docs/getting_started.md).

     

       
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Contributions for additional services welcome.

     

       
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For instructions on getting started see [docs/getting_started.md](./docs/getting_started.md).