Chihaya on Heroku

Chihaya torrent tracker on Heroku.

Chihaya HTTP torrent tracker tunneled from a worker dyno using Cloudflare Tunnel client.

As worker dyno do not sleep on free dyno, and in order not to put strain on Heroku's HTTP routers.

Heroku Deployment

You need Heroku CLI and a configured Cloudflare Tunnel.

1. Clone this repository.
2. Create an app on Heroku.
3. Encode the Cloudflare Tunnel JSON credential in Base64 using this command base64 -w 0 <cloudflare-tunnel-id>.json.
4. Set Cloudflare Tunnel configuration encoded in Base64 on config vars heroku config:set CLOUDFLARE_TUNNEL_CREDENTIAL=<cloudflare-tunnel-credential-base64>.
5. Encode the Cloudflare Tunnel config.yaml in Base64 using this command base64 -w 0 config.yaml.
6. Set Cloudflare Tunnel config.yaml encoded in Base64 on config vars heroku config:set CLOUDFLARE_TUNNEL_CONFIGURATION=<cloudflare-tunnel-config.yaml-base64>.

Deploy by building it on Heroku's server

7. Set git remote to Heroku heroku git:remote -a your-app-name.
8. Set stack to container heroku stack:set container -a your-app-name.
9. Deploy to Heroku git push heroku main.

Deploy by building it on your computer

You need Docker.

9. Build the image and push to Container Registry heroku container:push web -a your-app-name.
10. Release the image heroku container:release web.

Example cloudflared config.yaml file

url: http://localhost:6969
tunnel: deadbeef-1234-4321-abcd-123456789abc
credentials-file: /app/cloudflare-tunnel-credential.json

With Metrics:

tunnel: deadbeef-1234-4321-abcd-123456789abc
credentials-file: /app/cloudflare-tunnel-credential.json

ingress:
  - hostname: tracker.example.com
    service: http://localhost:6969
  - hostname: tracker-metrics.example.com
    service: http://localhost:8080
  - service: http_status:404