[5 Minutes Docker] Deploy FreshRSS Using Docker Run Command and Deploy To Fly.io

Resources included for free on all plans:

• Up to 3 shared-cpu-1x 256mb VMs†
• 3GB persistent volume storage (total)
• 160GB outbound data transfer, inbound transfer is free
• 10 Free Single Hostname Certificates

†3 VM's total between Apps and Machines

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docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --log-opt max-size=10m /
 -p 8080:80 /
 -e TZ=Europe/Paris /
 -e 'CRON_MIN=1,31' /
 -v freshrss_data:/var/www/FreshRSS/data /
 -v freshrss_extensions:/var/www/FreshRSS/extensions /
 --name freshrss /
 freshrss/freshrss

• Exposing on port 8080
• With a server timezone (default is UTC)
• With an automatic cron job to refresh feeds
• Saving FreshRSS data in a Docker volume freshrss_data and optional extensions in freshrss_extensions
• Using the default image, which is the latest stable release

Update the docker

# Rebuild an image (see build section below) or get a new online version:
docker pull freshrss/freshrss
# And then
docker stop freshrss
docker rename freshrss freshrss_old
# See the run section above for the full command
docker run ... --name freshrss freshrss/freshrss
# If everything is working, delete the old container
docker rm freshrss_old

Fly.IO Deployment Steps

• iwr https://fly.io/install.ps1 -useb | iex

1 Sign Up for Fly.io and Sign in

You can use your github account to log in or use an email account to sign up

You will need to add your credit card for free credit allowances, else you will get an error message when do deployment:

PS C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount> fly launch
An existing fly.toml file was found for app freshrss51
App is not running, deploy...
==> Building image
Searching for image 'freshrss/freshrss:1.20.1' remotely...
image found: img_y7nxpkrd5j2v8w25
==> Creating release
Error We need your payment information to continue! Add a credit card or buy credit: https://fly.io/dashboard/freshrss51sec/billing

2 Sign into your Fly.io account by typing flyctl auth login

PS C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount> flyctl auth login
Opening https://fly.io/app/auth/cli/8e426809a69c7d38e2ca77e0f62ae57 ...

Waiting for session... Done
successfully logged in as [email protected]

3 Create fly.toml file. You can use fly launch command to auto-generate one , then use notepad edit it with follow similar format

The most important part is to change app name, which must be uniqe. 

# fly.toml file generated for freshrss51 on 2023-01-24T20:14:49-05:00

app = "freshrss51"
kill_signal = "SIGINT"
kill_timeout = 5
processes = []

[build]
 image = "freshrss/freshrss:1.20.1"

[env]
 CRON_MIN='*/20'

[mounts]
 source="freshrss51sec_data"
 destination="/var/www/FreshRSS/data"

[experimental]
 allowed_public_ports = []
 auto_rollback = true

[[services]]
 http_checks = []
 internal_port = 80
 processes = ["app"]
 protocol = "tcp"
 script_checks = []
 [services.concurrency]
 hard_limit = 25
 soft_limit = 20
 type = "connections"

 [[services.ports]]
 force_https = true
 handlers = ["http"]
 port = 80

 [[services.ports]]
 handlers = ["tls", "http"]
 port = 443

 [[services.tcp_checks]]
 grace_period = "1s"
 interval = "15s"
 restart_limit = 0
 timeout = "2s"

4 After created fly.toml file, you can create a persisting data volume using the command 

• fly volumes create freshrss_data --size 1

PS C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount> fly volumes create freshrss51sec_data --size 1
? Select region: Toronto, Canada (yyz)
 ID: vol_53q80vdpk66vgzy6
 Name: freshrss51sec_data
 App: freshrss51
 Region: yyz
 Zone: 5e29
 Size GB: 1
 Encrypted: true
Created at: 25 Jan 23 01:29 UTC
PS C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount> fly launch
An existing fly.toml file was found for app freshrss51
App is not running, deploy...
==> Building image
Searching for image 'freshrss/freshrss:1.20.1' remotely...
image found: img_y7nxpkrd5j2v8w25
==> Creating release
--> release v2 created

--> You can detach the terminal anytime without stopping the deployment
==> Monitoring deployment
Logs: https://fly.io/apps/freshrss51/monitoring

 1 desired, 1 placed, 1 healthy, 0 unhealthy [health checks: 1 total, 1 passing]
--> v0 deployed successfully

PS C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount> flyctl ips list
VERSION IP TYPE REGION CREATED AT
v6 2a09:8280:1::3:d1e9 public global 12m8s ago
v4 66.241.124.170 public (shared)

Check from online website, please make sure you are using right organization.

It is running now:

You will get a default url which is <appname>.fly.dev, as you can see from the screenshot I am having

• freshrss51.fly.dev

Custom Domains and SSL Certificates:

 fly.io does support to add your own domain for your apps ,and also provide 10 free ssl certificates for your apps. 

PS C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount> fly volume list
ID STATE NAME SIZE REGION ZONE ENCRYPTED ATTACHED VM CREATED AT
vol_53q80vdpk66vgzy6 created freshrss51sec_data 1GB yyz 5e29 true 53c402b6 1 hour ago
vol_g2yxp4mdy5z463qd created freshrss_data 1GB yyz 5e29 true 1 hour ago

PS C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount>
PS C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount> fly volume delete vol_g2yxp4mdy5z463qd
Deleting a volume is not reversible.
? Are you sure you want to destroy this volume? Yes
Destroyed volume vol_g2yxp4mdy5z463qd from freshrss51
PS C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount>

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