Add Fly.io instructions on listmonk docs?

[paulrudy]

I've created a repo with instructions for deploying listmonk on Fly.io. Perhaps you'd like to include it in the docs? If so, I could create a PR.

[knadh]

Thanks. We can add a link to the tutorial under the 3rd party hosting section here https://listmonk.app/docs/installation/#3rd-party-hosting

[paulrudy]

I created a PR

[salahmak]

Hi @paulrudy I hope you're doing great. I'm having some issues with the steps you have provided in your repo and since it is archives I couldn't find any other way to contact you. So can you please check if it is up to date?

The problem I'm having is that when I do flyctl deploy I get these logs:

Updating existing machines in 'APP NAME' with rolling strategy
  Machine e286715c6e3478 [app] has state: started
  [1/1] Checking that <APP_CODE> [app] is up and running
Smoke checks for <APP_CODE> failed: the app appears to be crashing
Check its logs: here's the last lines below, or run 'fly logs -i <APP_CODE>':
  Configuring firecracker
  [    0.034743] PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found
   INFO Starting init (commit: b437b5b)...
   INFO Mounting /dev/vdb at /data w/ uid: 0, gid: 0 and chmod 0755
   INFO Resized /data to 1069547520 bytes
   INFO Preparing to run: `/bin/sh -c rm -rf /data/listmonk/static;   mkdir -p /data/listmonk;   cp -r /tmp/static /data/listmonk;   ./listmonk --install --idempotent --yes > server.log 2>&1 &&   ./listmonk --upgrade --yes > server.log 2>&1 &&  ./listmonk --static-dir=/data/listmonk/static > server.log 2>&1` as root
   INFO [fly api proxy] listening at /.fly/api
  2023/08/27 01:47:42 listening on [ADDRESS]:22 (DNS: [fdaa::3]:53)
   INFO Main child exited normally with code: 1
   INFO Starting clean up.
   INFO Umounting /dev/vdb from /data
   WARN hallpass exited, pid: 264, status: signal: 15 (SIGTERM)
  2023/08/27 01:47:43 listening on [ADDRESS]:22 (DNS: [fdaa::3]:53)
  [    2.266882] reboot: Restarting system
  machine did not have a restart policy, defaulting to restart
  [    0.036945] PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found
   INFO Starting init (commit: b437b5b)...
   INFO Mounting /dev/vdb at /data w/ uid: 0, gid: 0 and chmod 0755
   INFO Resized /data to 1069547520 bytes
   INFO Preparing to run: `/bin/sh -c rm -rf /data/listmonk/static;   mkdir -p /data/listmonk;   cp -r /tmp/static /data/listmonk;   ./listmonk --install --idempotent --yes > server.log 2>&1 &&   ./listmonk --upgrade --yes > server.log 2>&1 &&  ./listmonk --static-dir=/data/listmonk/static > server.log 2>&1` as root
   INFO [fly api proxy] listening at /.fly/api
  2023/08/27 01:47:45 listening on [ADDRESS]:22 (DNS: [fdaa::3]:53)
   INFO Main child exited normally with code: 1
   INFO Starting clean up.
   INFO Umounting /dev/vdb from /data
   WARN hallpass exited, pid: 264, status: signal: 15 (SIGTERM)
  2023/08/27 01:47:46 listening on [ADDRESS]:22 (DNS: [fdaa::3]:53)
Error: smoke checks for <APP_CODE> failed: the app appears to be crashing

When I check the logs of the app, I find that it keep restarting

[paulrudy]

Hi @salahmak, I haven't used listmonk for awhile, so although I replicated the problem you're having, I'm afraid I don't have any insight into what's going on. Something must have changed since I archived the repository, but I don't know if it is something with listmonk, or fly.io, or both.

I think your best bet would be to ask for support on fly.io's discussion site, or ask around here. Sorry I can't help

[salahmak]

Thanks for the reply @paulrudy and for putting effort into reproducing the problem, at least I know that I did the steps correctly.

I'll ask more and see.

[salim-b]

You can find a fully working setup in this GitLab repository.

To summarize:

• Set sensitive stuff like passwords as Fly secrets (flyctl secrets set VAR=VALUE).
• Use the deploy.release_command setting to run DB initialization and migrations.
• Create a persistent volume (flyctl volume create listmonk_uploads) to store uploads and set the necessary [[mounts]] and [[statics]] entries.