JMusicBot on fly.io

JMusicBot Discord music bot on fly.io

Run your own Discord music bot for free (within free tier) on fly.io

fly.io Deployment

GitHub Codespaces

1. Fork this repository.
2. On your own fork, click Code, and click Codespaces tab.
3. Click "Create codespace on main".
4. Check if JMusicBot version in Dockerfile is latest, if not, change to the latest version.
5. Login to flyctl by using fly auth login or you can generate access tokens and paste it to FLY_API_TOKEN in Codespaces secrets.
6. Create an app on fly.io fly launch --copy-config --name app-name --no-deploy --vm-memory 256.
7. When asked to tweak these settings before proceeding, enter yes if you want to tweak settings like selecting the region closest to you, otherwise, enter no.
8. After fly launch, flyctl will add [http_service] section, remove the whole [http_service] section in fly.toml, we don't need that.
9. Set environment variables for JMusicBot. fly secrets set -a app-name TOKEN=<your_discord_bot_token>
10. Set your Discord user ID at the config.txt.
11. Deploy to fly.io fly deploy -a app-name --ha=false.
12. When asked to allocate a dedicated IPv4 address, enter no.
13. Add the Discord bot to a server and check if the bot is online.

Local

You need flyctl installed.

1. Clone this repository.
2. Check if JMusicBot version in Dockerfile is latest, if not, change to the latest version.
3. Login to flyctl by using fly auth login.
4. Create an app on fly.io fly launch --copy-config --name app-name --no-deploy --vm-memory 256.
5. When asked to tweak these settings before proceeding, enter yes if you want to tweak settings like selecting the region closest to you, otherwise, enter no.
6. After fly launch, flyctl will add [http_service] section, remove the whole [http_service] section in fly.toml, we don't need that.
7. Set environment variables for JMusicBot. fly secrets set -a app-name TOKEN=<your_discord_bot_token>
8. Set your Discord user ID at the config.txt.
9. Deploy to fly.io fly deploy -a app-name --ha=false.
10. When asked to allocate a dedicated IPv4 address, enter no.
11. Add the Discord bot to a server and check if the bot is online.

Change server configuration

Type fly deploy -a app-name on the repository after editing config.txt.

fly.io free tier

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