I have a rust project and, for now, use cargo build and cargo run in the settings for “Build command” and “Start command”, just like suggested.
My issue is that the service takes extremely long (multiple minutes) to deploy or restart (it’s on the free tier).
The app is a single binary with all relevant files embedded into it. Locally, the binary is 7 MB while the whole /targets folder is 700 MB.
Since there is no way for me to specify file inclusions or exclusions, I assume that it just archives everything? That would explain the slow start, if it has to download and unzip almost a GB of (useless) data.
Is there a way for me to tell render that no, it actually only needs this one, single-digit Megabyte file?