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Introduction

Deploying with DigitalOcean is simple and cheap. You’ll just need to create a droplet, install Swift, and run your project.

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Deploy to a Droplet

First, create a new droplet with the image of your choice, for this guide we’ll use Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS) x64. You can see the supported Swift platforms here.

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Install Swift

Once your droplet is created, ssh into root@<droplet-public-ip> and install Swift with the official Linux Swift installer.

curl -L https://swiftlang.github.io/swiftly/swiftly-install.sh | bash

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Enable Firewall

You’ll need to allow HTTP through your droplet’s firewall.

sudo ufw allow http

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Run Your App

Now that Swift is installed, you can just run your app. Start by cloning it.

git clone <project>

Then run it on 0.0.0.0:80. This will make it available from your droplet’s public IP.

The first time you compile the app it will take a bit, especially if the droplet you created is very small. Future compiles will be much faster.
cd <project>
swift run app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 80

Visit <droplet-public-ip> in the browser and you’ll see your app running.

Nicely done, your project is live on DigitalOcean!