Deploying Fleet on Render

Below we’ll look at how to deploy Fleet on Render using Render WebService & Private Service components. To complete this you’ll need an account on Render, and about 30 minutes.

Fleet only has 2 external dependencies:

First let’s get these dependencies up and running on Render.

This private service will run MySQL, our database, so let’s give it a fitting name, something like “fleet-mysql”.

We’re also going to need to set up some environment variables and a disk to mount. Expand “Advanced” and enter the following:

After it’s deployed, you should see a unique Redis host/port combination, we’ll need that for Fleet so make sure to copy it for later.

Now that we have the dependencies up and running, on to Fleet!

Back in Render, create a new web service and give it a unique name, since this will be resolvable on the internet, it actually has to be unique on Render’s platform.

Next we will supply the environment variables Fleet needs to connect to the database and redis. We are also going to disable TLS on the Fleet server, since Render is going to handle SSL termination for us.

Give it the following environment variables:

Additionally we’ll configure the following so Render knows how to build our app and make sure its healthy:

Click Create and watch Render deploy Fleet! You should see something like this in the event logs:

Fleet is up and running, head to your public URL.

You should be prompted with a setup page, where you can enter your name, email, and password. Run through those steps and you should have an empty hosts page waiting for you.

This command creates an msi installer pointed at your Fleet instance.

To get them into Fleet we can use fleetctl again. Run the following on your terminal:

Now that we downloaded the standard query library, we’ll apply it using fleetctl. First we’ll configure fleetctl to use the instance we just built.

Try running:

Next, login with your credentials from when you set up the Fleet instance by running fleetctl login:

Applying the query library is simple. Just run:

fleetctl makes configuring Fleet really easy, directly from your terminal. You can even create API credentials so you can script fleetctl commands, and really unlock the power of Fleet.

That’s it! We have successfully deployed and configured a Fleet instance! Render makes this process super easy, and you can even enable auto-scaling and let the app grow with your needs.

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