Getting startedFerry and Render
What you can run
Ferry runs the five service types of Render, and Postgres and Redis.
Ferry has the five service types of Render.
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| Render feature | In Ferry |
|---|---|
| Web services, private services, background workers, cron jobs, static sites | Yes, all five service types |
| Native runtimes (Node, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, static) and Dockerfiles | Yes: Ferry detects the runtime and writes the Dockerfile |
| A prebuilt Docker image | Yes (--image) |
| Managed Postgres, Key Value (Redis) | Yes: containers with volumes, internal and external URLs |
| Persistent disks | Yes: a named volume. A service with a disk has 1 instance. A deploy stops the old instance first. |
| One-off jobs | Yes (ferry run) |
Blueprints (render.yaml) | Yes: ferry blueprint apply, the same schema (a subset) |
Example: a service from an image
ferry create hello --image nginx:alpine --port 80Read more: Builds & runtimes, Datastores, Jobs and the blueprint reference.