# Provisioning remote servers Deploying from your local environment to a remote server or cluster is easy. All you have to do is ensure the remote servers are setup as a Docker Swarm cluster. Then, from your local environment you may target a remote environment by using the \`DOCKER\_HOST\` env var. e.g. ``` DOCKER_HOST=ssh://ubuntu@ instant package init ... ``` ## Setting up new servers In addition, as part of the OpenHIM Platform Github repository we also provide scripts to easily setup new servers. The Terraform script are able to instantiate server in AWS and the Ansible script are able to configure those server to be ready to accept OpenHIM Platform packages. ### Ansible See [here](https://github.com/jembi/platform/tree/main/infrastructure/ansible). It is used for: * Adding users to the remote servers * Provision of the remote servers in single and cluster mode: user and firewall configurations, docker installation, docker authentication and docker swarm provision. All the passwords are saved securely using Keepass. In the inventories, there is different environment configuration (development, production and staging) that contains: users and their ssh keys list, docker credentials and definition of the hosts. ### Terraform Is used to create and set AWS servers. See [here](https://github.com/jembi/platform/tree/main/infrastructure/terraform). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://jembi.gitbook.io/openhim-platform/guides/provisioning-up-remote-servers.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.