Host member portal with SvelteKit: public profile assets

Summary

Deploy a member portal built with SvelteKit on Ample using the public image delivery 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, a private S3-compatible bucket holds objects with credentials delivered as encrypted environment variables, and a published bucket serves public assets from the CDN host. Verified on SvelteKit: public objects in a published bucket served from the CDN URL, kept separate from private objects in an unpublished bucket that require authorization (private=ok only for the allowed role).

Infrastructure requirements

• Compute: verified (Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.)
• Postgres: verified (Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.)
• S3-compatible object storage: verified (Buckets are S3-compatible with issued credentials; PutObject and GetObject are verified by canary.)
• CDN: verified (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 SvelteKit project that builds and starts with the documented commands (vite build with @sveltejs/adapter-node then node build 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 and a second, published bucket for public assets (CDN_*)
• An Ample account token with servers:write, databases:read, buckets:read

Exact tested configuration

• template: node-22
• runtime: node
• size: s-1vcpu-1gb
• install: npm install
• build: npm run build --if-present
• start: npm run start

Steps

1. Build and start. vite build with @sveltejs/adapter-node then node build 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 public image delivery: public objects in a published bucket served from the CDN URL, kept separate from private objects in an unpublished bucket that require authorization (private=ok only for the allowed role).
3. Wire object storage. 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. Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result (exit 0 live, 1 failed, 2 blocked).
5. Verify. Fetch the live URL and the pattern self-test route(s) (/p/public-media-library, /p/private-document-library) from the example; then run your own checks. On failure read ample logs <deployment_id> --kind build then --kind runtime.

Tested examples

• SvelteKit pattern fixture (tests/deploy-canaries/sveltekit-patterns): Multi-pattern SvelteKit app whose public image delivery module was checked live; the module is under tests/deploy-canaries/_pattern-modules.

Success checks

• app responds on its public URL (/ on the live URL, expect ample canary sveltekit patterns)
• public-media-library self-test (/p/public-media-library on the live URL, expect a CDN URL whose content is served publicly)
• private-document-library self-test (/p/private-document-library on the live URL, expect private=ok (with ?role=owner; 401 without, 403 for viewer))

Limitations

• Verified on the node-22 template at s-1vcpu-1gb with the example fixture; other sizes, templates and SvelteKit major versions are not verified.
• The member portal itself (your image processing and profile-media rules) is application code and was not separately tested; the pattern checks are what was verified.

Cost estimate

Estimated 10.00 USD per month (size prices from pricing.toml at build revision a1b8c38919e59cd035ebabaced73cf84ece24371).

Verification evidence

• canary_run on 2026-09-20T03:31:44Z: SvelteKit pattern fixture deployed on Ample; checks passed for public-media-library, private-document-library and configuration-secrets.

Execution binding

MCP tool ample_deploy, schema hash 876465fce906da0c observed 2026-09-21T03:19:59.461917+00:00 at revision 49962bcade4f, binding state current.