What happens when I move apps to another organization?

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Hi,

I’d like to move some apps (including a Postgres cluster) from my personal to another org (in the same account). As there isn’t much in the documentation about that process, I am a little hesitant just doing it. What can I expect? Will there be a longer down time? Do I need to move all apps at once (like can my apps from the personal org access the PG in the other org?)? Thank you.

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I was looking for the same answer, but I couldn’t find any, so I’ve just tried it.

App cannot communicate to the DB from another organisation, therefore you’ll need to move app and DB one after another, and you’ll expect a one minute downtime.

I haven’t been able to create a proxy to my DB after that, though.

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I’m having some issues with app to DB communication and I suspect this is the reason, but it happens intermittently.

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Did you ever figure this out? I’m running into the same issue.

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I’ve had to contact support to resolve the issue.

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For future readers of this topic:

  • Apps from different orgs can’t communicate through their private network (this may change in the future)
  • You have to move both apps to the new org and expect minutes long downtime
  • Once moved, the VMs needs to be redeployed, this is done automatically since flyctl v0.0.440 but if you can’t ssh or communicate with your app after moving, try redeploying it.
  • If fly deploy doesn’t fix it for Apps V2 (aka Machines), try updating machines with fly machines update ... command
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