Deploy on Render

Introduction

Render is a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, DDoS protection, private networks, and auto-deploys from Git.

Requirements

A Render account.

Deploy an Authorizer Instance

Deploy a production-ready Authorizer instance with a managed PostgreSQL database:

If you already have a PostgreSQL instance, use the without-postgres branch.

Step 1: Enter app details

Enter the name for your instance.

Step 2: Configure for v2

Set the following required environment variables:

Variable	Example Value
DATABASE_TYPE	postgres
DATABASE_URL	(auto-configured by Render)
JWT_TYPE	HS256
JWT_SECRET	test
ADMIN_SECRET	admin
CLIENT_ID	123456
CLIENT_SECRET	secret

Optional: metrics bind address and rate limits

The authorizer-render image expands these variables to CLI flags:

Variable	Maps to	Default
METRICS_HOST	--metrics-host	127.0.0.1
METRICS_PORT	--metrics-port	8081
RATE_LIMIT_RPS	--rate-limit-rps	30
RATE_LIMIT_BURST	--rate-limit-burst	20
RATE_LIMIT_FAIL_CLOSED	--rate-limit-fail-closed	false

See Metrics & monitoring and Rate limiting. Add REDIS_URL if you run more than one instance.

Update the start command to pass CLI flags:

./build/server \
  --database-type=$DATABASE_TYPE \
  --database-url=$DATABASE_URL \
  --jwt-type=$JWT_TYPE \
  --jwt-secret=$JWT_SECRET \
  --admin-secret=$ADMIN_SECRET \
  --client-id=$CLIENT_ID \
  --client-secret=$CLIENT_SECRET