# deploying a strapi image **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [April 24, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/deploying-a-strapi-image/1250 "2021-04-24T12:27:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rugwiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/rugwiro/32/49239_2.png) [@rugwiro](https://community.fly.io/u/rugwiro)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/deploying-a-strapi-image/1250/1 "2021-04-24T12:27:20Z")
Hello community, I don’t know a lot about strapi but a friend who is trying ouy [fly.io](http://fly.io) asked for my help on how deploy here. And I thought it could be a great opportunity to add it as yet another easy deployment example on fly since it seems strapi is a very popular headless CMS. The image in question is “[Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/strapi/strapi)”. And I went through the following steps: ```auto flyctl launch --image strapi/strapi flyctl deploy --remote--only ``` at which point I got the following log out put: ```auto ==> Validating app configuration --> Validating app configuration done Services TCP 80/443 ⇢ 8080 Searching for image 'strapi/strapi' remotely... image found: img_rxdkzvq5rdv9nmwq Image: registry-1.docker.io/strapi/strapi:latest Image size: 372 MB ==> Creating release Release v0 created You can detach the terminal anytime without stopping the deployment Monitoring Deployment 1 desired, 1 placed, 0 healthy, 1 unhealthy [restarts: 2] [health checks: 1 total, 1 critical] v0 failed - Failed due to unhealthy allocations - no stable job version to auto revert to Failed Instances ==> Failure #1 Instance ID = 4afe1213 Version = 0 Region = lhr Desired = run Status = failed Health Checks = 1 total, 1 critical Restarts = 2 Created = 4m38s ago Recent Events TIMESTAMP TYPE MESSAGE 2021-04-24T12:07:48Z Received Task received by client 2021-04-24T12:07:48Z Task Setup Building Task Directory 2021-04-24T12:08:00Z Started Task started by client 2021-04-24T12:09:17Z Restart Signaled healthcheck: check "66cf15a97e3a024dadbbfb595963ba3f" unhealthy 2021-04-24T12:09:26Z Terminated Exit Code: 0 2021-04-24T12:09:26Z Restarting Task restarting in 1.10674283s 2021-04-24T12:09:28Z Started Task started by client 2021-04-24T12:10:46Z Restart Signaled healthcheck: check "66cf15a97e3a024dadbbfb595963ba3f" unhealthy 2021-04-24T12:10:54Z Terminated Exit Code: 0 2021-04-24T12:10:54Z Restarting Task restarting in 1.032824943s 2021-04-24T12:10:57Z Started Task started by client 2021-04-24T12:12:14Z Restart Signaled healthcheck: check "66cf15a97e3a024dadbbfb595963ba3f" unhealthy 2021-04-24T12:12:23Z Terminated Exit Code: 0 2021-04-24T12:12:23Z Not Restarting Exceeded allowed attempts 2 in interval 5m0s and mode is "fail" 2021-04-24T12:12:23Z Alloc Unhealthy Unhealthy because of failed task 2021-04-24T12:12:23Z Killing Sent interrupt. Waiting 5s before force killing Recent Logs 2021-04-24T12:09:29Z [info] Using strapi 3.6.0 2021-04-24T12:09:29Z [info] No project found at /srv/app. Creating a new strapi project 2021-04-24T12:09:29Z [info] Creating a new Strapi application at /srv/app. 2021-04-24T12:09:30Z [info] Creating a project from the database CLI arguments. 2021-04-24T12:09:31Z [info] Creating files. 2021-04-24T12:09:33Z [info] - Installing dependencies: 2021-04-24T12:09:34Z [info] Health check status changed to 'critical' 2021-04-24T12:10:46Z [info] Shutting down virtual machine 2021-04-24T12:10:46Z [info] Sending signal SIGINT to main child process w/ PID 503 2021-04-24T12:10:50Z [info] Health check status changed to 'passing' 2021-04-24T12:10:55Z [info] Starting instance 2021-04-24T12:10:55Z [info] Configuring virtual machine 2021-04-24T12:10:55Z [info] Pulling container image 2021-04-24T12:10:56Z [info] Unpacking image 2021-04-24T12:10:56Z [info] Preparing kernel init 2021-04-24T12:10:57Z [info] Configuring firecracker 2021-04-24T12:10:57Z [info] Starting virtual machine 2021-04-24T12:10:57Z [info] Starting init (commit: 665705e)... 2021-04-24T12:10:57Z [info] Running: `docker-entrypoint.sh strapi develop` as root 2021-04-24T12:10:57Z [info] 2021/04/24 12:10:57 listening on [fdaa:0:d1:a7b:a98:4afe:1213:2]:22 (DNS: [fdaa::3]:53) 2021-04-24T12:10:57Z [info] Using strapi 3.6.0 2021-04-24T12:10:57Z [info] No project found at /srv/app. Creating a new strapi project 2021-04-24T12:10:58Z [info] Creating a new Strapi application at /srv/app. 2021-04-24T12:10:59Z [info] Creating a project from the database CLI arguments. 2021-04-24T12:10:59Z [info] Creating files. 2021-04-24T12:11:02Z [info] - Installing dependencies: 2021-04-24T12:11:12Z [info] Health check status changed to 'critical' 2021-04-24T12:12:14Z [info] Shutting down virtual machine 2021-04-24T12:12:14Z [info] Sending signal SIGINT to main child process w/ PID 503 2021-04-24T12:12:20Z [info] Health check status changed to 'passing' ***v0 failed - Failed due to unhealthy allocations - no stable job version to auto revert to and deploying as v1 Troubleshooting guide at https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/troubleshooting/ ``` What is strange is I am not getting any error from the strapi app itself telling me what has or has not failed, but I suspect a missing volume attachment. Instructions about the docker strapi-docker can be found at [GitHub - strapi/strapi-docker: Install and run your first Strapi project using Docker](https://github.com/strapi/strapi-docker), ---
**Author:** ![jerome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/jerome/32/17_2.png) [@jerome](https://community.fly.io/u/jerome)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/deploying-a-strapi-image/1250/2 "2021-04-24T13:40:34Z")
Hey there! We don’t support mounting volumes like Docker does at runtime. We support volumes, but they’re empty to begin with. Your friend probably needs to create their own Dockerfile that inherits from `strapi/base` and `COPY` their files to `/srv/app`. Something like this: [strapi-docker/examples/custom at master · strapi/strapi-docker · GitHub](https://github.com/strapi/strapi-docker/tree/master/examples/custom) (the `.dockerignore` seems useful too, or else the build context will be much larger) Looks like there are quite a few `DATABASE_` environment variables to set too. They’ll probably need to provision a PostgreSQL database somewhere. We offer that too! ```bash flyctl postgres create flyctl postgres attach -a your-app ``` I believe `strapi` supports `DATABASE_URL` which will be set automatically on your app when you `flyctl postgres attach`. ---
**Author:** ![rugwiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/rugwiro/32/49239_2.png) [@rugwiro](https://community.fly.io/u/rugwiro)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/deploying-a-strapi-image/1250/3 "2021-04-24T15:51:15Z")
When you are deploying the image directly without creating a project strapi creates one using `strapi new`. And by default it expects you to indicate a sqlite file since it’s what it uses in dev mode. And it is probably trying to create one since in the base configuration there isn’t one. Does the vm allow writing to it’s filesystem? If not we would have to attach the file it wants as a volume. ---
**Author:** ![kurt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/kurt/32/43757_2.png) [@kurt](https://community.fly.io/u/kurt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/deploying-a-strapi-image/1250/4 "2021-04-24T16:14:21Z")
You can write to the filesystem but that data will vanish when you deploy or the VM restarts. You could use [litestream.io](http://litestream.io) to save sqlite files to s3 between runs with some extra work, otherwise attaching a volume is simplest.