deploying meilisearch

Questions / Help
1

What I want to deploy? - https://www.meilisearch.com/

It has a binary that can be downloaded and run as ./meilisearch I would love to deploy this with something like

curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh
./meilisearch

which basically downloads the binary and runs it at default port 7700.

I am using this server with port 7700 in my local phoenix app. I can deploy phoenix app to fly.io. (amazingly simple flyctl!)

But how do I stay on fly.io to deploy my other app meilisearch ? and get the endpoint which I can then use in my phoenix app?

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You’ll need to create a new app on Fly.

For this app, you’ll need a volume for Meilisearch to store its data.

fly deploy -i getmeili/meilisearch

From your Phoenix app you should be able to access Meilisearch via your-new-app-name.internal:7700.

That’s if you don’t want it open to the internet.

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  1. Do I execute this from the same directory ?

  2. How do I attach volume to this new app?

4

You run fly deploy from the directory your fly.toml is in. Did you already run fly apps create for your meilisearch app? fly.toml is generated when you create a new app on Fly.

You can attach a volume with these instructions: Volumes

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I did not know that there is an option to create apps via fly apps create. Will try out and read volumes. Thank you for documentation.

A few suggestions for better documentation:

  1. on typing fly apps - creating apps is somewhere after scroll.

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2 and 3 puzzled me :stuck_out_tongue:

6

Were you ever able to get a meilisearch server running on fly? I’m trying attempting to transition my server at the moment. Any guidance would be appreciated!

7

How did you have to specify the MEILISEARCH_HOST value? http://your-new-app-name.internal:7700?

8

I’m not sure, I’ve never set it up myself. Is this meant to be publicly accessible or internal?

9

It’s supposed to be internal.

10

Then yes, you’d want to access it via your-app.internal:<mellisearch-port>

11

just a quick question.

if the docker app runs via a custom command, how would one configure that?

for example, meiliesearch documentation says, one can use following command

docker run -it --rm \
  -p 7700:7700 \
  -v $(pwd)/meili_data:/meili_data \
  getmeili/meilisearch:v0.29

how can this be launched via fly deploy ?

12

I found this blog post which helped me set up a meilisearch app.

https://dev.to/jakovglavac/deploy-meilisearch-on-flyio-p89

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