Is it encrypted on the wire? Or is that locked behind "enterprise" features?
Every app on Fly runs in a dedicated private network over wireguard. So yes!
Free Postgres databases for small projects
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#152Fly's developer experience is really sweet. Do you have plans to open up your API for provisioning on the fly? We've use-cases which require dynamic provisioning of new deployments as well as mutating existing deployments based on APIs we offer to our customers.
The API is open. If you spelunk through flyctl you can see it using GraphQL for everything: https://github.com/flyctl
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#153I tried to deploy an application I currently have running on Digital Ocean App Platform (their Heroku competitor) also on fly.io. The app is using Python/Django and Postgres, ideal to test. I must say the deployment experience was great, stuff just worked, brilliant. One question in case someone tried that: How can you customize the postgres config? I want to enable pg_stat_statements, and one needs to add `shared_pr…
(Random person, don't actually know)
Check this out:
> Fly Postgres clusters are just regular Fly applications. If you need to customize Postgres in any way, you may fork this repo and deploy using normal Fly deployment procedures. You won't be able to use fly postgres commands with custom clusters. But it's a great way to experiment and potentially contribute back useful features!
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#154This is awesome.
One genuine question from someone with no context into their product: does Fly lock me in by barring access to WAL replication? This is something Heroku does that is extremely annoying as you'll grow and grow with them and one day you realize migrating the data will be a massive hassle.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a company that says it makes it super easy to deploy a container image and mentions that all you need to do "Write your code, package it into a Docker image, deploy it to Fly's platform"[0], they sure have a dearth of documentation on how to deploy an existing docker container. I am not sure if I'm missing something or what, but here's where I looked: * googled 'docker fly' and a blog post that references docker…
You know, you're not really missing anything, we just don't connect the dots very well. Install CLI, run `fly launch` in a directory with a Dockerfile, and it should just work. Most of our users don't start with a Docker image though, they start with Phoenix. What you're seeing is a little bit of indecisiveness in how we target the docs.
This type of humble and helpful answer from a vendor is refreshing.
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#156Guide on deploying EdgeDB on fly.io:
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#157> A note about credit cards > Even for our free services, we require a credit card number. We know that's the worst and it gives you heartburn. It's not because we plan to charge you. > But here's what happens if you give people freemium full access to a hosting platform: lots and lots of free VMs mining for cryptocurrencies. > We could tell you we want to prevent crypto mining because we care about the planet, and t…
Wouldn't they be able to detect mining? And shut down that VM? I think many hosters would like to have that...
Sure ... look for high CPU then anonymous miners cap their CPU usage. And a few legitimate users (and potential customers) get locked for reasons they don't understand.
Repeat with every other trick you use to detect abuse.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know, you're not really missing anything, we just don't connect the dots very well. Install CLI, run `fly launch` in a directory with a Dockerfile, and it should just work. Most of our users don't start with a Docker image though, they start with Phoenix. What you're seeing is a little bit of indecisiveness in how we target the docs.
Out of curiosity, why target Phoenix users as your primary audience when you serve generic Docker users easily as well, given that they're likely a 10x or more segment? Are you just marketing to a tighter target audience to start, or is your platform/UI specifically optimized to support Phoenix?
The Phoenix guy works for them, so I'm sure they have a lot of organic interest from Phoenix users. It's like how you don't have to use Next.js on Vercel, but…
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#159db is just 1 commoditized piece of a platform
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#160To the Fly.io team here, other than the "daily storage-based snapshots of each of your provisioned volumes"[0], is there a plan to offer something similar to Heroku WAL based restore system [1] where you can (from the control panel) restore a db to a moment in time?
Also do you have any plans for a managed upgrading/patching of Postgres, again similar to Heroku?
For me personally the fully managed nature of Postgress on Heroku is brilliant and what I would love to see on Fly.io. It seems that on Fly its a little more hands on or am I missing something?
0: https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/multi-region-databases/#...
1: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-data-s...