June 23, 2021
Édouard Bonlieu
@edouardb_
Rust is a popular programming language offering blazingly fast performance, and guaranteeing memory and thread safety.
In this tutorial, we will explain how to deploy a Rust web application using Rocket, a fast, easy, and flexible web framework. We will then deploy the Rust web application on the Koyeb serverless platform offering a simple way to deploy Rust applications and offering native autoscaling, automatic HTTPS (SSL), auto-healing, and global load-balancing across our edge network with zero configuration.
To successfully follow and complete this guide, you need:
To successfully deploy a Rust web application on Koyeb Serverless Platform, you need to follow these steps:
To get started, let's start by configuring a Rust environment we will use to create the application.
If you do not have Rust installed on your machine, you can install using rustup. In your terminal, run the command below:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
Once rustup is installed, you may need to restart your current shell to reload your PATH
environment variable. You can avoid this by configuring your current shell running:
source $HOME/.cargo/env
To ensure the latest toolchain is properly installed, in your terminal run:
rustup default stable
To create our application, in your terminal run:
cargo new rust-rocket-app --bin
The command above uses Cargo, the Rust package manager to create a new package. The --bin
option indicates to make a binary program.
Cargo created a rust-rocket-app
directory containing two files:
$ cd rust-rocket-app $ tree . . ├── Cargo.toml └── src └── main.rs 1 directory, 2 files
As our web app uses Rocket, we need to add it as a package dependency. In the rust-rocket-app
directory, open the Cargo.toml
file and add rocket as a dependency under the [dependencies]
section.
[dependencies] rocket = "0.5.0-rc.1"
Open and modify the src/main.rs
with the code below:
#[macro_use] extern crate rocket; #[get("/")] fn index() -> &'static str { "Hello, world!" } #[get("/hello/<name>")] fn hello(name: &str) -> String { format!("Hello, {}!", name) } #[launch] fn rocket() -> _ { rocket::build() .mount("/", routes![index]) .mount("/", routes![hello]) }
The code above creates two routes: /
, returning "Hello, world!" and /hello/<name>
returning "Hello, name!" where "name" is the route parameter. Then it mounts the routes and launches the application.
Finally, create a Rocket.to
To run and test the application locally, run:
cargo run
If everything goes fine, your app starts and you can test the routes using curl:
$curl localhost:8000/ Hello, world! $curl localhost:8000/hello/koyeb Hello, koyeb!
To Dockerize our Rust web app, create a Dockerfile
in your project directory.
In this guide, we use Docker multi-stage build to keep the image layers size as small as possible and to ensure our image contains only what is needed to run.
In your Dockerfile, copy the content below:
FROM rust:1 as builder WORKDIR /app COPY . . RUN cargo install --path . FROM debian:buster-slim as runner COPY /usr/local/cargo/bin/rust-rocket-app /usr/local/bin/rust-rocket-app ENV ROCKET_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0 EXPOSE 8000 CMD ["rust-rocket-app"]
The first stage is used to build our application, in the second one we copy the application binary from stage one and use it to run the application.
To build the Docker image execute the following command:
docker build . -t <DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME>/rust-rocket-app
In this guide we will push the Docker image to the Docker Hub. You are free to use another different registry as Koyeb allows you to deploy from any container registry.
Once the build is completed, you can run a container using the image locally to validate everything is working as expected running:
docker run -p 8000:8000 <DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME>/rust-rocket-app
If everything goes fine, your container starts properly and you can test the routes using curl:
$curl localhost:8000/ Hello, world!
With the Docker image built and functional, we can now upload it to the Docker Hub container registry. In your terminal run the command below to push the image:
docker push <DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME>/rust-rocket-app
Once the push command is completed, you will see your Docker image available on the Docker Hub.
We are now ready to deploy our Rust web application on Koyeb. First, create a Koyeb Secret to store your container registry configuration. In this guide, we will deploy our app from the Docker Hub. For other container registries example, check out the related documentation.
If your Docker image is public, there is no need to create a secret containing your container registry configuration.
echo \ '{ "auths": { "index.docker.io/v1/": { "username": "<REPLACE_ME_WITH_DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME>", "password": "<REPLACE_ME_WITH_DOCKER_HUB_TOKEN>" } } }' | koyeb secrets create docker-hub-credentials --value-from-stdin
We can now deploy the Rust web application on Koyeb Serverless Platform running:
koyeb app init rust-rocket-app --docker "<REPLACE_ME_WITH_DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME>/rust-rocket-app" --ports 8000:http --routes /:8000 --docker-private-registry-secret docker-hub-credentials
This command creates a new Koyeb App and deploys our Rust application exposing port 8000 and making it publicly accessible on the /
route of your Koyeb App URL.
To retrieve your Koyeb App URL and access your application, run:
$koyeb app get rust-rocket-app ID NAME DOMAINS UPDATED AT d58ebed1-48c0-46b7-a2f1-91f3ffdbccf2 rust-rocket-app rust-rocket-app-<YOUR_ORG>.koyeb.app 2021-06-23 09:46:55.411403 +0000 UTC
Open the URL in your browser to access your application running on Koyeb and natively offering autoscaling, automatic HTTPS (SSL), auto-healing, and global load-balancing across our edge network.
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