Add deploy instructions to the README

README.md

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 ### Deploying
 
-Specify what it takes to deploy your app.
+The project uses [ember-cli-deploy-simply-ssh](https://github.com/AutoCloud/ember-cli-deploy-simply-ssh) to handle automated deployments to the production server. In order to deploy
+a build, you need to have SSH access to the host server and an ssh key setup for authentication. Instructions
+for setting up an ssh key on your local machine can be found at https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent 
+(only follow the instructions for 'Generating a new SSH key'. To get your public key installed on the 
+server you will need to contact the hosting administrator.
+
+Once your key is setup and installed on the host server, you will need to add a file named `.env.example.production`
+with the following contents:
+
+```
+SSH_HOST=server_host_name
+SSH_PORT=server_port
+SSH_USER=server_user
+SSH_KEY=/Users/yourname/.ssh/your_private_key
+```
+
+Change the variables to your required settings, but do not commit the file to the repo. ember-cli-deploy-simply-ssh
+is able to handle SSH password authentication as well, but you will need to investigate that on your own.
+
+Once your configuration is set, run
+
+```
+ember deploy production --activate
+```
+
+This command will create a new revision on the server and activate it. If you run without the `--activate` option
+you will need to activate the revision manually by running
+
+```
+ember deploy:activate production --revision revision_number
+```
+
+`revision_number` will look something like 53b49825426ef9fa12a24254afa45e55.
 
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