Fly builders running out of disk space causing deploy to fail

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Hello! We don’t really have a limit, but remote builders are created with 50gb volumes by default. There’s a few workarounds:

  • delete the remote builder app so you get a fresh one on the next build
  • ssh into the builder and run docker system prune to purge cache/dangling layers

And this might work, though I haven’t tried it:

  • create a new volume with the same name and a bigger size (eg flyctl volumes create <name> --size 100gb) then delete the old one. next start should use the bigger one

Expanding volumes is on our roadmap, but no timeframe.

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