Astropod is a free and open-source self-hosting serverless podcast solution. It supports diverse deployment services and audio hosting options and includes a customizable website deployable in a few clicks, with a personalized domain and a user-friendly CMS for effortless podcast management.
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Introducing Astropod, the free and open source serverless podcast
Astropod is a free and open-source self-hosting serverless podcast solution. It supports diverse deployment services and audio hosting options and includes a customizable website deployable in a few clicks, with a personalized domain and a user-friendly CMS for effortless podcast management.You can check the next episodes for a complete step-by-step guide of how to install and configure Astropod or you can go to our GitHub repository and get the code.
Deploying your serverless podcast in 2 minutes
You can deploy Astropod in the deployment platform that you prefer, but for this example we are going to use Netlify and GitHub to store our instance code. Once we have our accounts created we only have to connect Netlify with github and press the deploy button in netlify. Mentioned links: Netlify GitHub Astropod Repository Deploy Astropod on Netlify
Setting user authentication and accessing to the dashboard
Once you’ve got the project set up, you do need to activate Netlify Identity in the Netlify UI identity, the Git Gateway to allow e-mail/password authentication, and you just eed to add the users that are going to be allowed to access to our podcast admin panel. To open the dashboard on your website go to https://yourwebsite.netlify.app/admin/
Publishing your first episode
To publish your first episode the process is very simple. First of all, we have to upload the audio of our episode to the internet. Astropod is designed to work with any file storage solution so you can use the platform you prefer, you can use for example DropBox, Google Drive, Cloudinary or on your own server. For free unlimited cloud file storage we recommend use Internet Archive Once the file is uploaded, we return to the administration panel and press create new episode. In this step we fill in the fields between them pasting the address of the audio that we previously uploaded, we publish and we already have our first episode published.
Configuring your Astropod Podcast
Astropod configuration is very simple, you just have to go to the Configuration tab in the side menu and there you will see the General menu. In General configuration, you can set up all the fundamental elements of both the podcast and the website.
Conclusion
If you got this far, you already have your Astropod instance up and running. If this solution is useful to you and it adds value, you can support us by sharing the project with your friends, leaving us some feedback, making a donation or if you are a developer you can get involved in the development of new features. Kind regards. Manuel.