Host community forum with Next.js: tenant-scoped workspaces

Summary

Deploy a community forum built with Next.js on Ample using the multi-tenant relational data pattern. Compute runs the app in an isolated microVM behind a public HTTPS URL, a managed PostgreSQL 16 database is auto-provisioned and injected as DATABASE_URL. Verified on Next.js: a tenant column on every row and query, with a cross-tenant read returning nothing (tenant_isolation=ok). Not separately tested: your tenant model, membership and per-tenant authorization; treat the community forum-specific behavior as your application code.

Representative Queries

• Host community forum with Next.js: tenant-scoped workspaces
• Where can I host Community forum built with Next.js?
• I need an explicit tenant model and application-enforced tenant isolation tests.

Resource Requirements

• Compute
• Postgres

Infrastructure Requirements

Compute

• Status: Verified
• Summary: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.

Postgres

• Status: Verified
• Summary: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.

Framework

Next.js

Workload

Community forum

Prerequisites

• A Next.js project that builds and starts with the documented commands (next build then next start -H 0.0.0.0 -p $PORT on the node-22 template)
• A PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL at runtime (auto-provisioned when omitted, or supplied with --env)
• An Ample account token with servers:write, databases:read

Workflow Steps

1. Build and start
   next build then next start -H 0.0.0.0 -p $PORT on the node-22 template. The server must bind 0.0.0.0 on PORT.
2. Implement the pattern on PostgreSQL
   The fixture's module implements multi-tenant relational data: a tenant column on every row and query, with a cross-tenant read returning nothing (tenant_isolation=ok). Copy the approach into your schema; keep migrations idempotent and run them with --release-command.
3. Deploy
   Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result (exit 0 live, 1 failed, 2 blocked). Re-running with no change is a no-op. ample deploy . --name --public
4. Verify
   Fetch the live URL and the pattern self-test route(s) (/p/multi-tenant-relational-data) from the example; then run your own checks. On failure read ample logs --kind build then --kind runtime. ample logs --kind build

Examples

Next.js pattern fixture

• Description: Multi-pattern Next.js app whose multi-tenant relational data module was checked live; the module is under tests/deploy-canaries/_pattern-modules.
• Source Reference: tests/deploy-canaries/next-js-patterns

Success Checks

• App responds on its public URL
  • Path: /
  • Expectation: ample canary next js patterns
• Multi-tenant-relational-data self-test
  • Path: /p/multi-tenant-relational-data
  • Expectation: tenant_isolation=ok

Limitations

• Verified on the node-22 template at s-1vcpu-1gb with the example fixture; other sizes, templates and Next.js major versions are not verified.
• The community forum itself (your tenant model, membership and per-tenant authorization) is application code and was not separately tested; the pattern checks are what was verified.

Cost Estimate

• Currency: USD
• Monthly Amount: 10.0
• Components:
  • App server: Size: s-1vcpu-1gb, Monthly Amount: 5.0
  • Managed PostgreSQL database: Size: s-1vcpu-1gb, Monthly Amount: 5.0

Note: Always-on monthly price of the tested sizes; apps and databases auto-pause when idle. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.

Evidence Summary

• Canary Run: Next.js pattern fixture deployed on Ample; checks passed for multi-tenant-relational-data.

Last Verified

2026-09-21T02:34:39Z

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