flyctl
Command line tools for fly.io services (by superfly)
s6-overlay
s6 overlay for containers (includes execline, s6-linux-utils & a custom init) (by just-containers)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
flyctl
Posts with mentions or reviews of flyctl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.
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Getting started with Open SaaS
For frontend deployment, I used Netlify (for the generous free package) and the recommended fly.io for server + database (also cheap package).
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Breaking the Myth: Scalable, Multi-Region, Low-Latency App Exists And Will Not Cost You A Kidney.
Create an account on Fly.io.
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How to use fly.io and Tigris to deploy a Next.js app
You can learn more about fly.io and tigris, we will need to create an account on both platforms for this project regardless. Anyway with the theory out of the way let's get started in the next section as we create our accounts and start building the app.
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Set up your own personal browser in the Cloud
Fly.io is a platform that helps you run your apps and databases closer to your users all around the world. It takes your app code, packages it up neatly, and puts it on virtual machines that can be quickly started or stopped. This makes your app faster for users and more reliable. Fly.io is easy to use, works well for small projects or personal apps. It's a great way to make sure your app runs smoothly for people no matter where they are.
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NoSQL Postgres: Add MongoDB compatibility to your Supabase projects with FerretDB
In this post, we'll start from scratch, running FerretDB locally via Docker, trying out the connection with mongosh and the MongoDB Node.js client, and finally deploy FerretDB to Fly.io for a production ready set up.
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Free tools for developers to build their apps
2- fly.io
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Top 5 Ways To Host Your Full-Stack App For Free 🚀✨
Fly is a cloud platform that focuses on global edge computing. Fly specializes in high-performance hosting and provides a global network of edge locations. Fly is known for its scalability and performance optimizations.
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Tech stack used for SaaS
But videototextai.com is built using NextJS + Firebase auth + Firestore and a backend deployed at fly.io . Fly makes it really easy to deploy docker containers and that is IMO the fastest way to develop, you can setup a local setup
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Is it still worth choosing Heroku in 2023?
Alternatives explored: * northflank: While running the wrk test, requests were taking 3-7 seconds. Couldn't repeat Heroku's phenomenon of "400ms-800ms" during such a load test. * fly.io: Reliability: It’s Not Great * render.com: I remember the time when indiehackers.com was down because of an outage on Render, not sure if it's worth trusting.
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what do I do in the meantime?
For personal/portfolio projects fly.io and render.com both have free tiers that support the major backend frameworks and Postgres at the very least (although I think with Render at least the DB expires and has to be reloaded after a certain amount of time, have not personally tried it).
s6-overlay
Posts with mentions or reviews of s6-overlay.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-07.
- S6-overlay: one *thing* per Docker container
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Backup Grafana SQLite with Litestream using s6-overlay in a container app
FROM docker.io/grafana/grafana-oss:9.5.12-ubuntu # Set USER to root escalating priviliges to perform installation of litestream and s6-overlay USER root RUN apt-get -qq update && \ apt-get -qq install -y xz-utils \ && rm -rf /var/libs/apt/lists/* # https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream-s6-example/blob/main/Dockerfile # Download the static build of Litestream directly into the path & make it executable. ADD https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/releases/download/v0.3.11/litestream-v0.3.11-linux-amd64.tar.gz /tmp/litestream.tar.gz RUN tar -C / -xvzf /tmp/litestream.tar.gz ARG S6_OVERLAY_VERSION="3.1.5.0" # Download the s6-overlay for process supervision. ADD https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay/releases/download/v${S6_OVERLAY_VERSION}/s6-overlay-noarch.tar.xz /tmp RUN tar -C / -Jxpf /tmp/s6-overlay-noarch.tar.xz ADD https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay/releases/download/v${S6_OVERLAY_VERSION}/s6-overlay-x86_64.tar.xz /tmp RUN tar -C / -Jxpf /tmp/s6-overlay-x86_64.tar.xz # Copy s6 init & service definitions. COPY etc/s6-overlay /etc/s6-overlay # Copy Litestream configuration file. COPY etc/litestream.yml /etc/litestream.yml # The kill grace time is set to zero because our app handles shutdown through SIGTERM. ENV S6_KILL_GRACETIME=0 # Sync disks is enabled so that data is properly flushed. ENV S6_SYNC_DISKS=1 # Reset USER to 472 to reset the escalated privileges USER 472 # # Run the s6 init process on entry. ENTRYPOINT [ "/init" ]
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Letme Dockerize for you | share your projects
Learn S6-Overlay that allows to have one docker container for multiple processes... make immich docker compose not a two page 8 containers long? But just one clean container with healthcheck. Convince the devs to switch to it.
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Code-server : Awesome VS Code container on browser (Useful for Fast Cloud Deploy - Fix Corporate Issues)
Custom base docker image with S6 overlay (for more details : just-containers/s6-overlay)
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xinetd/inetd/systemd socket services in Docker?
https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay can do what you need.
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Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
Used s6-overlay[1] to start a lot daemons in a docker-image for demo purposes - postgres, tomcat, mysql, php-fpm, apache (don't ask why ;) - s6 worked really well and was reliable and stable - I enjoyed it very much. It was also possible to reliable pass SIGTERM to the daemons in the image for clean shutdown and it was easily possible to configure logging to stdout with a prefix. Modelling dependencies (waiting on database before starting app etc.pp) is possible via shell-scripts. It's super flexible but out of the box it's more like a collection of powerful tools not a complete package - but that's good. It's in the tradition of djb daemontools and is very unix - as in doesn't talk a lot and you better know how each part works but - and that's really cool - it's modular and simple and once you get a grip on it you can easily reason about it. systemd takes a completely different approach and also solves a kind of differnt problem - this is like small pieces of lego that compose well instead of one big chunk of glib/dbus/glibc only c-code.
1: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay
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Do Docker Containers go thru a Boot Process
Every container has some entrypoint, whether it launches a single binary, runs a "process supervisor" like s6, or does some pre-setup before running a service, like a database.
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Docker and dedicated user
If you *really* want to make your own containers with PUID/PGID support checkout "S6-overlay" and the linuxserver "baseimage". Somewhere in the startup they end up running:
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Docker Build Process: Archive Extract onto / (root), overwrites destination directories and contents
FROM ubuntu:20.04 ARG S6_OVERLAY_VERSION=3.1.0.1 ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ENV TZ="America/New_York" RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y xz-utils ADD https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay/releases/download/v${S6_OVERLAY_VERSION}/s6-overlay-noarch.tar.xz /tmp RUN tar -C / -Jxpf /tmp/s6-overlay-noarch.tar.xz ADD https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay/releases/download/v${S6_OVERLAY_VERSION}/s6-overlay-x86_64.tar.xz /tmp RUN tar -C / -Jxpf /tmp/s6-overlay-x86_64.tar.xz RUN apt-get autoclean && rm -rf /tmp/* ENTRYPOINT ["/init"]
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Starting a service in Dockerfile
Not sure about unbound or what have inside the pihole base image, you may try to run the service in foreground or use some tiny init service for that container (I just learnt that s6 may work for that, but you must be aware how it should be used)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing flyctl and s6-overlay you can also consider the following projects:
vercel - Develop. Preview. Ship.
docker-php-nginx - Docker image with PHP-FPM 8.3 & Nginx 1.24 on Alpine Linux
supabase - The open source Firebase alternative.
docker-restic-cron - Automated Restic backups from Docker
podman-compose - a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman
laravel-docker-production
Dokku - A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications
docker
litestream - Streaming replication for SQLite.
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
PolarDB-for-PostgreSQL - A cloud-native database based on PostgreSQL developed by Alibaba Cloud.
tinypilot - Use your Raspberry Pi as a browser-based KVM.