Railway•12mo ago

Run ntfy.sh on Railway

Does anyone run ntfy.sh on Railway and could share their Dockerfile / deploy commands? https://docs.ntfy.sh/install/#docker

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Percy•12mo ago

Project ID: 4777e174-d2c3-4955-bb26-7510d6ed462a

yannOP•12mo ago

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Brody•12mo ago

their yaml file lays out how you would go about deploying on railway

version: '3'
services:
  ntfy:
    image: binwiederhier/ntfy
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      NTFY_BASE_URL: http://ntfy.example.com
      NTFY_CACHE_FILE: /var/lib/ntfy/cache.db
      NTFY_AUTH_FILE: /var/lib/ntfy/auth.db
      NTFY_AUTH_DEFAULT_ACCESS: deny-all
      NTFY_BEHIND_PROXY: true
      NTFY_ATTACHMENT_CACHE_DIR: /var/lib/ntfy/attachments
      NTFY_ENABLE_LOGIN: true
    volumes:
      - ./:/var/lib/ntfy
    ports:
      - 80:80
    command: serve

version: '3'
services:
  ntfy:
    image: binwiederhier/ntfy
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      NTFY_BASE_URL: http://ntfy.example.com
      NTFY_CACHE_FILE: /var/lib/ntfy/cache.db
      NTFY_AUTH_FILE: /var/lib/ntfy/auth.db
      NTFY_AUTH_DEFAULT_ACCESS: deny-all
      NTFY_BEHIND_PROXY: true
      NTFY_ATTACHMENT_CACHE_DIR: /var/lib/ntfy/attachments
      NTFY_ENABLE_LOGIN: true
    volumes:
      - ./:/var/lib/ntfy
    ports:
      - 80:80
    command: serve

if you give me some time ill try my hand at making a template for you @yann - here you go! https://railway.app/template/AYXXPG if you need to change any configurations, the environment variables for ntfy can be found here https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#config-options

yannOP•12mo ago

Hey, the template works. Is the source code of the template published anywhere? Would love to see how it looks like. By the way, to use ntfy effectively, it's required to run some commands on the instance. For example to configure auth roles. Do you know if it's possible to connect to the deployed container and run commands on it?

Brody•12mo ago

templates don't have source code, there's no coding involved, but you can use this tool to view the config of the template https://bookmarklets.up.railway.app/template-info/ railway doesn't provide any kind of ssh access to containers.

yannOP•12mo ago

So the only way to run these commands would be to make them part of the start command?

Brody•12mo ago

correct

yannOP•12mo ago

I see now that the auth commands for ntfy are interactive. (https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#example-private-instance) That basically means that ntfy cannot be deployed on railway with auth?

Configuration - ntfy

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Brody•12mo ago

does it not provide a flag for the password?

yannOP•12mo ago

Update: It is possible to set NTFY_PASSWORD which determines the password for the next added user. You can then create an admin user like this: ntfy user add --role=admin name

yannOP•12mo ago

With this admin user you can do some basic user management through the API: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/722#issuecomment-1546789275

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yannOP•12mo ago

It is quite inconvenient to re-deploy the container every time you want to run a command. Is there really no other way?

Brody•12mo ago

there isn't and personally I wouldn't be trying to use the start command as a command input box the better option would be to write a Dockerfile thats based on the ntfy image and then run all the needed commands from a bash/sh script so it's all setup in a single deploy

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