Blueprint sync fails with no error messages

1

This is my first deployment with a blueprint and it just fails with no error messages. What should I do?

Here is my blueprint:

services:
  # A Docker web service
  - type: web
    name: test-api
    env: docker
    repo: https://github.com/test/test-api.git
    dockerfilePath: ./Dockerfile.production
    dockerContext: .
    region: oregon
    plan: free
    branch: master # optional (uses repo default)
    numInstances: 1 # optional (defaults to 1)
    healthCheckPath: /health
    domains:
      - api.test.com
    envVars:
      - key: DATABASE_USERNAME
        fromDatabase:
          name: test_db
          property: user
      - key: DATABASE_PASSWORD
        fromDatabase:
          name: test_db
          property: password
      - key: DATABASE_NAME
        fromDatabase:
          name: test_db
          property: database
      - key: DATABASE_HOST
        fromDatabase:
          name: test_db
          property: host
      - key: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
        generateValue: true
      - key: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
        generateValue: true
      - key: AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
        value: "ap-northeast-1"
      - key: AWS_CDN_HOSTNAME
        value: "cdn.test.io"
    autoDeploy: true # optional

databases:
  - name: test-db
    databaseName: test_production
    ipAllowList: [] # only allow internal connections
2

For anyone else reading this. I ended up having to manually create a service first so I can have access to the logs then syncing it with the blueprint. If you create a blueprint without any services prior and it has an error, you won’t be able to find logs for it. This seems like a bug with Render.

3

You shouldn’t have to do that - we have an effort in place to improve error messaging around Blueprints because they can be a bit hidden. What was the error in the end with your Blueprint?

John B

4

I couldn’t find out what the blueprint error was. There’s no log output. I would have expected a log output for the blueprint itself. Moreover, the resources couldn’t create so I couldn’t even go to the individual resource to see what the log outputs were.

5

Error output for Blueprints is high on our list to improve this year!

John B

6

We’re testing out render.com since Heroku’s gone down the drain, and I’m just getting a red X next to Create web service api when pushing a render.yaml. There doesn’t appear to be any logs or any messages, so I have no idea why it’s failing. Is there no workaround for this? Kind of a major dealbreaker if we can’t even test it…

7

I’d also like to add that this is frustrating. Sometimes the sync can highlight what it thinks failed in the render.yaml, but it seems generally it just says: there were problems, here’s your yaml, good luck!

I managed to get a working configuration after a bunch of trial and error, but it would be really useful to:

  1. Have error output that at least shows an underlying error message so we have a hint as to what should change.
  2. Iterate configuration without sending a string of possibly broken commits to a repository. Being able to edit a failed sync in place would be much less annoying than pushing over and over.

Thanks - I’m really thrilled about the promise of this feature. It’s just hard to get up and running!