In this section we will cover how to deploy your app for the first time to fly.io

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Prerequisites

  • A Fly.io account
  • Flyctl CLI installed and authenticated on your local machine

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Steps

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1. Launch Fly app

Ensure you have the fly cli installed and are authenticated.
  1. Run this command in your terminal in the root directory of the boringdatabase app
  fly launch
  1. Follow the console steps.
  2. Fly will build and deploy your app to a fly subdomain
  3. View the live logs in the fly dashboard - the deployment will fail at this point don’t panic!
boring database hero light

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2. Setting Production Environment variables

Now you have a fly machine you can set the production environment variables to get your app working.
  1. Login to the fly dashboard
  2. Find your new app and navigate to secrets.
boring database hero light
  1. Set all the production environment variables
boring database hero light You could choose to use the TEST environment variables for Stripe and update them to production at a later point.

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3. Redeploy your app

  1. Back in your repository terminal run:
fly deploy
This will rebuild the app and apply the new environment variables.
  1. Check the live logs again. You shouldn’t see any errors if everything has been set correctly.
You will see the logs for the seed.ts file working here too!