pocketbase-fly

This repo can be used to spin up a slim VM running Pocketbase on Fly.io. The Docker image is based on Google's distroless containers, which comes with security benefits and usability drawbacks, see Dockerfile. This project has a GitHub Action configured to continuously deploy the app.

Fly.io specifics

Launch this app on Fly.io

• sign up on Fly.io, e.g. via GitHub
• install flyctl on your machine: brew install flyctl
• log in via fly auth login
• launch via fly launch, use the checked in fly.toml
• deploy changes via fly deploy, or use the GitHub Action explained in the next step

CD with GitHub Action

• generate a deploy token via fly tokens create deploy -x 999999h
• go to your repository on GitHub and select Settings
• under Secrets and variables, select Actions, and then create a new repository secret called FLY_API_TOKEN with the value of this freshly generated token
• a push to main or a merged pull request to main will trigger a deploy action