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    How to deploy your first Rust web application devops rust medium.com
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      inactive-user avatar inactive-user 4 years ago | link

      I think that especially for an environment which compiles to a static binary – such as Rust – a basic VPS still offers the best bang/buck experience. I am considering doing the startup thing and wrote a prototype with Go. I deployed it to a $5/month Linode to show some people. My deployment tools? scp and tmux. Works well enough, and for the $5 I get the same as a $25 Heroku plan. I can also run my database (currently SQLite), Varnish, and the app itself on that $5 VPS; I don’t think I can do that with Heroku?

      The advantages of Docker also don’t strike me as very significant in this scenario.

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        inactive-user avatar inactive-user 4 years ago | link

        I do the same with Go: I just compile to a static binary and run it in a chroot. I don’t think Docker would add anything to this except extra complexity.

        I can’t do this with Rust because I don’t know how to compile to a static binary. Is there an argument I can pass to cargo to make it produce a static binary?

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          inactive-user avatar inactive-user 4 years ago | link

          I never used Rust beyond the “getting started” tutorials, but the article mentions this: https://github.com/emk/rust-musl-builder

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            inactive-user avatar inactive-user 4 years ago | link

            Thank you, but I’m afraid I’m not using musl: I’m on OpenBSD.

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              inactive-user avatar inactive-user 4 years ago | link

              I would expect that the same technique would work on any platform? It looks like it works by setting some env vars

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                inactive-user avatar inactive-user edited 4 years ago | link

                It uses the cargo target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl. You can specify a different target but I don’t know of any non-musl cargo targets that result in a statically linked binary: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/linkage.html#static-and-dynamic-c-runtimes

                That said, that page has more information on it than when I last looked. I don’t remember reading about the crt-static feature flag before. Maybe if I specify that on OpenBSD it will just work? I’ll try it out when I get a chance.

                RUSTFLAGS='-C target-feature=+crt-static' cargo build

                Perhaps?

                UPDATE: Nope, didn’t work. I guess the x86_64-unknown-openbsd target does not support changing the linkage of the C runtime.

                UPDATE: It looks like we need, at least, a line like this:

                crt_static_respected = true;

                in here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/librustc_target/spec/openbsd_base.rs

                I think that’ll get us here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/librustc_codegen_llvm/back/link.rs#L1013

                Which might be enough?

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      stip avatar stip 4 years ago | link

      Whenever you learn something new, take this mental model: Never do things for their own sake. Which translate to: Never learn Rust just because you want to learn Rust.

      This is great advice to follow! I have a related rule for personal projects: I can either write something I know in a language I don’t know, or I can write something I don’t know in a language I know. Mixing the two means bad news.

      (side-note: I just signed up for Rust and Tell Berlin! see you there)

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      gruberb avatar gruberb 4 years ago | link

      I wish there would be another platform where I could publish articles as easy I can on Medium. I hate their layout for not loggedin users (and a lot more). But it’s easy to see how well an article is doing and to be able to write on the go.

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        ur5us avatar ur5us 4 years ago | link

        Maybe https://write.as/ or https://dev.to could work. As a reader, I certainly prefer both over Medium.

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      cup avatar cup edited 4 years ago | link

      Does anyone have uBlock Origin filters or UserStyle to decrapify Medium?

      If not I will make one.

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        balrogboogie avatar balrogboogie 4 years ago | link

        as much as I hate the name, https://makemediumreadable.com/ really helps with this

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        zmitchell avatar zmitchell 4 years ago | link

        https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances

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        j127 avatar j127 4 years ago | link

        I use Stylus to apply custom CSS.

        .js-stickyFooter,
.overlay,
.js-metabar,
.js-metabarSpacer,
.js-postShareWidget,
.collectionHeader,
.progressiveMedia-image,
.progressiveMedia-canvas,
.progressiveMedia,
.aspectRatioPlaceholder,
.butterBar.
.postMeterBar {
    display: none;
}
.avatar-image {
    border-radius: 4px !important;
}
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        gruberb avatar gruberb 4 years ago | link

        https://dev.to/gruberb/web-programming-in-rust-02x-deploy-your-first-app-1k05

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        inactive-user avatar inactive-user 4 years ago | link

        https://github.com/notriddle/remove-fixed-banners ?

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          cup avatar cup 4 years ago | link

          needs to cover the fullscreen popup as well

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      gruberb avatar gruberb 4 years ago | link

      You can find the article (series) now also on dev.to: https://dev.to/gruberb/web-programming-in-rust-02x-deploy-your-first-app-1k05