Ken SchwenckeJan 4, 2023

Fellow tooters: What's the best way these days to deploy a simple Python app with a simple writeable database (bonus if it works with sqlite, which I know you can't use with eg Vercel or Heroku)?

The use case is a classroom environment. Ideally not a Docker setup, because I don't think at this stage you'd want to explain containerization to people.

The answer to this used to be Heroku's free tier, but without it they're a bit pricey I think.

Any ideas?

Show threadJoe GermuskaJan 4, 2023

@ken I recently ported a free heroku app to Fly.io. I'm happy to share my experience, but I'm not sure I can recommend it for your use case. I could only get it to work with Docker.

I specifically had trouble using the buildpacks and SQLite, but I had a lot of trouble finding any docs on the open buildpack ecosystem to track down the issue.

Show threadKen SchwenckeJan 4, 2023
@JoeGermuska Interesting, I'll look into it! I can't help but feel that every day we stray further from god's light (code running on servers in an understandable way).
Show threadJ. Blake
@ken @JoeGermuska I am not religious, but I genuinely miss 'code running on servers in an understandable way.'
Jan 4, 2023 at 4:56pmWeb