Running Blazor on Fly.io
I’ve been running a Blazor app on Heroku for a bit, but I decided to give Fly.io a try. Aside from the ease of deployment through their CLI, they boast some pretty cool, zero-configuration global deployment benefits: Over 3 million apps have launched on Fly.io, boosted by global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Since .NET Core 1.0 first release in 2016, Microsoft has made a Docker image available for the .NET runtime, making composing Docker containers and running .NET application a breeze. This has made hosting on services that support Docker (like Heroku and Fly) a breeze. To get started, you need Dockerfile in your project folder. Simply change the AppName.dll to match your executable name. I’m also running .NET 9.0 preview builds, so adjust accordingly. ...