Setting up Resources on Render

Render is pretty neat!

I’m still super early days but I have discovered the render.yml files that is the equivalent to the Amazon CDK (Cloud Development Kit). The Amazon CDK is pretty powerful from what I can glean.

I say that because I have watched several videos on how awesome it is, but my eyes always glaze over when I have to go on a six week training course just so I know how many services Amazon can offer me! Bitter? Maybe, confused? Absolutely.

I’m not going to get all ranty about AWS, all I’ll say is that it’s not the sort of thing you can go ‘quickly’ spin something up without worrying if you’re going to end up with a massive bill at the end of the month.

Preconceptions? Absolutely, and until there’s an AWS light I don’t think they will change for me. There are services that offer the AWS light option though, services like Vercel, Begin, Netlify functions and Render.

Render YML

Render gives you the option to configure your whole stack in one file. So far I’ve only spun up a Strapi web service with accompanying PSQL databases for a staging and production environment.

services:
 - type: web
 name: strapi-production
 env: node
 plan: starter
 buildCommand: yarn install && yarn build
 startCommand: yarn start
 healthCheckPath: /_health
 region: frankfurt
 envVars:
 - key: NODE_VERSION
 value: 12.18.4
 - key: NODE_ENV
 value: production
 - key: CLOUDINARY_NAME
 sync: false
 - key: CLOUDINARY_KEY
 sync: false
 - key: CLOUDINARY_SECRET
 sync: false
 - key: DATABASE_URL
 fromDatabase:
 name: database-production
 property: connectionString
 - key: JWT_SECRET
 generateValue: true
 - key: ADMIN_JWT_SECRET
 generateValue: true
 - type: web
 name: strapi-staging
 env: node
 plan: starter
 buildCommand: yarn install && yarn build
 startCommand: yarn start
 healthCheckPath: /_health
 region: frankfurt
 envVars:
 - key: NODE_VERSION
 value: 12.18.4
 - key: NODE_ENV
 value: production
 - key: CLOUDINARY_NAME
 sync: false
 - key: CLOUDINARY_KEY
 sync: false
 - key: CLOUDINARY_SECRET
 sync: false
 - key: DATABASE_URL
 fromDatabase:
 name: database-staging
 property: connectionString
 - key: JWT_SECRET
 generateValue: true
 - key: ADMIN_JWT_SECRET
 generateValue: true

databases:
 - name: database-production
 plan: starter
 region: frankfurt
 - name: database-staging
 plan: starter
 region: frankfurt

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