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Host community forum with Spring Boot: tenant-scoped workspaces

Summary: Deploy a community forum built with Spring Boot 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 Spring Boot: 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

Resource Requirements

Infrastructure Requirements

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Workflow Steps

  1. Build and start: ./mvnw -q -DskipTests package (or the Gradle wrapper) producing one application jar, then java -jar on the jvm-21 template (Temurin JDK 21) with server.port read from PORT. 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.
    • Command: ample deploy . --name <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.
    • Command: ample logs --kind build

Examples

Success Checks

  1. App responds on its public URL
    • Kind: http_get
    • Path: /
    • Expect: ample canary spring boot patterns
  2. Multi-tenant-relational-data self-test
    • Kind: http_get
    • Path: /p/multi-tenant-relational-data
    • Expect: tenant_isolation=ok

Limitations

Cost Estimate

Next Actions

Evidence Summary

  1. Canary run: Spring Boot pattern fixture deployed on Ample (./mvnw -q -DskipTests package (or the Gradle wrapper) producing one application jar, then java -jar on the jvm-21 template (Temurin JDK 21) with server.port read from PORT); checks passed for multi-tenant-relational-data and configuration-secrets.
    • Observed At: 2026-09-21T02:34:39Z
  2. Canary run: The same Spring Boot app deployed with a --release-command migration; the marker it created was readable after activation.
    • Observed At: 2026-09-20T22:49:19Z

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