podfly 0.1.1

Deploy Serverpod apps on Fly.io, Railway, and more via existing cloud CLIs. Thin orchestrator (not a host): podfly.yaml, Dockerfile/fly/railway quirks, Flutter web packaging, Postgres wiring, smoke checks.

Changelog

All notable changes to podfly are documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project aims to follow Semantic Versioning.

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[Unreleased]

Added

• (nothing yet)

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0.1.1 — 2026-07-20

Changed

• README / skill: reword Serverpod Cloud positioning (clear “managed vs own infra” split; drop “out of respect” phrasing)

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0.1.0 — 2026-07-20

First public release on pub.dev.

Features

Host adapter architecture

• Host adapter registry (lib/src/hosts/): Fly, Railway, and planned clouds as HostAdapter plugins
• Wizard chooses API cloud (host: in podfly.yaml); doctor only requires that host’s CLI
• Planned hosts (Render, Cloud Run, AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean): config + doctor install recipes; deploy not implemented yet

Fly.io

• Default API host with scale-to-zero-friendly fly.toml templates
• fly apps create when missing (+ unique suffix if name taken); app name sanitize
• Patch Serverpod production.yaml publicHost to *.fly.dev
• Optional Dockerfile template if Serverpod server Dockerfile is missing
• HostAdapter.ensureApiApp: create API app before database attach
• fly_postgres: create cluster, attach, parse DATABASE_URL → .podfly_fly_pg.json + correct Serverpod user/db/passwords.yaml

Railway

• First-class API host (host: railway): project/service, domain, railway.toml, railway up
• Doctor resolves CLI under ~/.railway/bin
• Full stack: separate API + static web (nginx) + optional Postgres (not a siamese monolith)
• railway_postgres provider with sidecar → production.yaml / passwords.yaml
• Serverless by default for API + web (sleepApplication + GraphQL when CLI has no flag)
• Optional CDN on web service

Cloudflare Pages

• Split mode: Flutter web → Pages via wrangler
• Pages project create; _headers / _redirects; SERVER_URL dart-define

Doctor & install

• Doctor can install missing CLIs (Fly, Railway, wrangler, neonctl) via brew or install scripts
• Facilitated login on TTY; PODFLY_AUTO=1 skips Y/n
• Host-scoped doctor (not always Fly)

Database

• Providers: none, sqlite, fly_postgres, neon, railway_postgres
• DB need detection; soft warnings for unused Serverpod template auth

Project surface & web packaging

• Detect mobile / API-only monorepos → web.enabled: false
• In-package Flutter web build, CanvasKit, bootstrap without stub SW
• Example: example/mobile_api_only

CLI

• Commands: deploy, doctor, init, smoke
• Flags: --dry-run, --smoke, --api, --web, --yes, --no-login, --host, --mode
• CI-friendly: env tokens + --yes --no-login

Documentation

• README (install from pub.dev, roadmap, Serverpod Cloud recommendation)
• User guide, caching, database, config reference, CI / GitHub Actions
• AGENTS.md, llms.txt, design specs

Fixes

• Fly app exists before postgres attach
• Fly attach credentials (not hard-coded user: postgres)
• Railway full-stack service wiring and up path
• Example Serverpod deps pinned to 4.0.0-beta.0

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Links

• Package: pub.dev/packages/podfly
• Repo: github.com/127thousand/podfly
• Docs: doc/README.md