Otterwiki on Google Cloud Run

[ebah80]

Hi!
I discovered Otterwiki few weeks ago! Very nice project, i'm going to use it for some personal documentation.

Has anyone tried to use it on Cloud Run?
I've got OtterWiki partially working (user management works fine, login also).
When i upload a file or edit/save a page it breaks.
I think the issue is git that does not work very well with object storage.

I am working on some trick to sync the local storage with the bucket to keep persistance but i was wondering if there was a more straightforward way to make it work.

Thanks

[redimp]

Hey @ebah80,

I never tried to run An Otter Wiki via Google Cloud Run. From my understanding are volumes only available via Cloud Storage FUSE which has very limited features. I would have expected problems with the sqlite database, but since you can login, this seems to work.

Please provide more infos on how you run it, do you start a container? Do you pip install it? How and where is the volume mounted?

[ebah80]

Hey @redimp ,
Here are the commands I executed:

# Create a bucket in us-central1 (Free Tier region)
gcloud storage buckets create gs://123456789-otterwiki-data --location=us-central1

# Deploy on CloudRun
gcloud run deploy otterwiki \
  --image=redimp/otterwiki:2 \
  --region=us-central1 \
  --port=80 \
  --cpu=1 \
  --memory=512Mi \
  --min-instances=0 \
  --max-instances=1 \
  --add-volume=name=otter-data,type=cloud-storage,bucket=123456789-otterwiki-data \
  --add-volume-mount=volume=otter-data,mount-path=/app-data \
  --allow-unauthenticated

The errors I recorded are all related to git:

Funny thing, git failed but file have been uplaoded and pages have been modified (I can see all the changes after reloading the site).

[ebah80]

I put some effort in this ...

• Cloud Run: is not really a viable solution because it lacks a permanent storage and GCP Filestore that might solve the issue is just for enterprise solutions (costs are more than 130EUR/month)
• Container-Optimized OS: deploy a VM to run a container ... doesn't sound really efficient

so finally I ended up with a free tier GCP VM and I installed following this guide https://otterwiki.com/Installation#from-source-as-wsgi-application-with-uwsgi:

• works perfectly
• costs nothing

Now I am enjoying it :)
Thanks