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Host documentation site with Astro: Postgres-backed content

Summary

Deploy a documentation site built with Astro on Ample using the relational records 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, and a published bucket serves public assets from the CDN host. Verified on Astro: a workspace-scoped table, an explicit state machine (draft to review to published) that rejects invalid transitions, and a cross-workspace read that returns nothing (transitions=true isolation=true). Not separately tested: your record schema, states and access rules; treat the documentation site-specific behavior as your application code.

Representative Queries

• Host documentation site with Astro: Postgres-backed content
• Where can I host Documentation site built with Astro?
• I need a content schema, publishing workflow and cache behavior after content updates.

Resource Requirements

• primitive:compute
• primitive:postgres
• primitive:cdn

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.
3. CDN
   • Status: verified
   • Summary: The CDN host serves objects from published buckets. It does not front app compute and is not a cache or key-value store.

Prerequisites

• A Astro project that builds and starts with the documented commands (astro build with the @astrojs/node standalone adapter then node ./dist/server/entry.mjs on the node-22 template)
• A PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL at runtime (auto-provisioned when omitted, or supplied with --env)
• A bucket from ample bucket create with its credentials passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables
• An Ample account token with servers:write, databases:read, buckets:read

Workflow Steps

1. Build and start
   • Command: astro build with the @astrojs/node standalone adapter then node ./dist/server/entry.mjs on the node-22 template.
   • Note: The server must bind 0.0.0.0 on PORT.
2. Implement the pattern on PostgreSQL
   • Description: The fixture's module implements relational records: a workspace-scoped table, an explicit state machine (draft to review to published) that rejects invalid transitions, and a cross-workspace read that returns nothing (transitions=true isolation=true). Copy the approach into your schema; keep migrations idempotent and run them with --release-command.
3. Wire object storage
   • Description: Create the bucket(s), then pass endpoint, region, bucket and keys as --env values. Use path-style addressing. Keep private data in an unpublished bucket. Publish only the bucket that serves public assets and reference its CDN URL.
4. Deploy
   • Command: ample deploy . --name --public --env S3_ENDPOINT=... --env S3_REGION=... --env S3_BUCKET=... --env S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... --env S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=... --env CDN_PUBLIC_URL=...
   • Note: 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.
5. Verify
   • Command: ample logs --kind build
   • Description: Fetch the live URL and the pattern self-test route(s) (/p/relational-records) from the example; then run your own checks. On failure read ample logs --kind build then --kind runtime.

Examples

• Astro pattern fixture
  • Description: Multi-pattern Astro app whose relational records module was checked live; the module is under tests/deploy-canaries/_pattern-modules.
  • Source Reference: tests/deploy-canaries/astro-patterns

Success Checks

• HTTP GET on public URL
  • Path: /
  • Expect: ample canary astro patterns
• Relational records self-test
  • Path: /p/relational-records
  • Expect: records=ok transitions=true isolation=true

Limitations

• Verified on the node-22 template at s-1vcpu-1gb with the example fixture; other sizes, templates and Astro major versions are not verified.
• The documentation site itself (your record schema, states and access rules) is application code and was not separately tested; the pattern checks are what was verified.

Cost Estimate

• Currency: USD
• Monthly Amount: 10.0
• Basis: size prices from pricing.toml (loaded by the API) at build revision 1ac5595375130d45290090e82ed0f554ccd45405-dirty
• Components:
  • App server, size: s-1vcpu-1gb, quantity: 1.0, monthly amount: 5.0
  • Managed PostgreSQL database, size: s-1vcpu-1gb, quantity: 1.0, 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.