FR: Enhance the Self Hosting docs

[prologic]

What are you trying to do?

I'm trying to understand what parts of tier.run I can self-host and run myself. This part of the docs is not super clear. There is a "Self Hosting" section that links off to external resources and that's about it.

How should we solve this?

Please provide brief documentation on the "Self Hosting" section of the docs and/or README that make it clear what parts of tier.run you can self-host and run yourself. I assume this is the model builder? I'm not sure, hence the FR :)

What is the impact of not solving this?

Work-around: Follow the docs that do exist and see how things work.

Anything else?

Nope

[bmizerany]

Tier may be run 100% self-hosted. Tier Cloud is a managed service with all of the same features and more to come.

[prologic]

How? This part isn't clear to me from the docs...

[kitchenbeats]

Agree with you prologic. The docs are not very clear on this. There are a few packages prebuilt, docker, fly and heroku, but no obvious docs on self hosting, or the OSS itself.

[prologic]

Ideally:

• Provider a Docker image on the Docker hub
• A sample docker-compose.yml to run it

That should be enough IMO.

[bmizerany]

Thank you for the feedback. Running the image like docker run tierrun/tier serve [args] should work. We'll look into updating docs. Images can be found here: https://www.tier.run/blog/official-tier-docker-images#

[lavievillethomas]

I try to launch Tier on docker

My docker-compose.yml :

version: '3' services: tierrun: image: tierrun/tier environment: STRIPE_API_KEY: "PRIVATE_KEY" volumes: - ./docker/tier/config.json:$HOME/.config/tier/config.json command: tier serve

But I have a same response :

`
Environment variables:

STRIPE_API_KEY
Stripe API key. If not set, the CLI will use
$HOME/.config/tier/config.json if present; otherwise an error will occur.
`

Do you have an issue for this ? Or an docker-compose example ?
Thanks !

[jahabeebs]

@prologic @lavievillethomas did you guys have luck with self-hosting? Unfortunately neither the Docker nor fly.io options are working for me for self-hosting. Tier.run is killing their cloud service so hoping there's a way...

Docker, instant crash (w/stripe key set):

Fly.io, instant crash (w/stripe key set):

[bmizerany]

Can you share what command and env (secrets redacted) you're using?

[jahabeebs]

Can you share what command and env (secrets redacted) you're using?

Hi @bmizerany,

Thanks for your message. I'll try to be as detailed as possible with how I've tried deploying so far in Azure and Fly.io to see if there might be an obvious solution.

Azure

This is my experience trying to self-host with Azure, but if you think there's an easier way to deploy the Docker container let me know.

1. Creating web app in Azure

Pulling the Docker image (startup command is blank for now, but I'll modify later)

Enable public access

2. Container deployed, logs show immediate failure (maybe because Stripe key not set and it can't ping 8080 either)

3. Adding my live Stripe API key (same one I use in openmoderator.com that works with tier's api)

4. Verified in advanced tools that live key is set and try to re-deploy but immediate failure

5. maybe we can change the startup commands to pass in the env variable

6. stripe_api_key variable visible in logs, still crashes instantly

Fly.io

1. Run flyctl launch --no-deploy

2. Set Stripe live key as secret

3. Deploy with flyctl deploy command and fails instantly

4. Re-deploy and...maybe it's working? Same errors as before but the last message is that the health check works

5. Visited deployed URL (https://fly-tier.fly.dev/) and it was server not found

[bmizerany]

For posterity: gordalina/fly-tier@83bc420

[jahabeebs]

Posting my docs here on standing up an NGINX proxy in front of an internal/private, hosted tier instance on Fly.io:

https://github.com/jahabeebs/fly-tier-run-nginx-proxy