This repo does not work anymore with Netlify

[clarnx]

Saw your video on Youtube and then cloned the repo and deployed on Netlify.
However the repo does not work.
Are there any updates?

[ChristopherBiscardi]

Unfortunately I'm going to be deprecating this repo as Netlify has not continued support in a substantial way. The examples will be converted to AWS Lambda examples which will work correctly with cargo-lambda: https://www.cargo-lambda.info/

AWS has committed to supporting Rust and their SDKs have hit 1.0 in the last few months -- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-general-availability-of-the-aws-sdk-for-rust/ so that's where I'm going to focus my serverless work moving forward.

[clarnx]

Thanks for the update. For some funny reason looks like after I deployed this repo with the custom build in the build.sh file previous deployments that worked on Netlify no longer work.
Any reasons why that might be the case?
I even tried the previous repo at https://github.com/netlify/rust-functions-example as a fresh deploy and it did not work.
It was working previously I don't know why it stopped working all of a sudden.
If possible can you investigate this.
Try to deploy this repo and then when it fails try to deploy the working version at https://github.com/netlify/rust-functions-example

Thanks

[ChristopherBiscardi]

Netlify has been changing their environments without really notifying anyone, so its very possible that they did that again and as a result older functions got re-deployed into a non-working environment.

Another big trip up that currently exists is that if you use a recent version of Rust and build in --release mode Netlify's CLI will no longer recognize it because they overfit their binary detection and there is no way to tell Netlify that a binary is, in fact, a function it should upload. You have to pass their heuristics, which are wrong. That issue hasn't been responded to for a few months now though so I don't anticipate it being fixed -- netlify/cli#6168

You can pass the heuristic if you build in debug mode (without the --release flag), but you'll get bigger, slower applications because all of the debug info is included.

[clarnx]

Thanks for the information.
I appreciate it.
I guess I have to host my Rust application elsewhere.
Apart from Shuttle-rs what other alternatives would to recommend to host my Rust application based on your experience and ease of access.
Note: I don't want to use AWS lambda.

Thanks.

[ChristopherBiscardi]

I use Fly.io and it works very well and has been stable for me for a while now. You will have to write a Dockerfile, but here's an example one that I've used before (given a project called api).

FROM ubuntu:22.04
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y ca-certificates && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
COPY target/release/api /usr/local/bin/api
WORKDIR /opt
CMD ["api"]

[ChristopherBiscardi]

netlify has semi-officially said they won't be working on the rust support and the relevant issues in the cli repo have been closed without a fix so I'm going to archive this repo and the corresponding workshops and focus on lambda and other platforms in the future.

https://answers.netlify.com/t/roadmap-for-full-rust-support-since-its-been-in-experimental-mode-for-quite-some-time/111836