Question

Can I use Litestream SQLite replication with App Platform?

Posted on August 30, 2021
DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by Jon Friesen

Can I use Litestream SQLite replication with App Platform and DigitalOcean Spaces?

Submit an answer

This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Jon Friesen

DigitalOcean Employee

• August 30, 2021

Accepted Answer

👋 Hey! Great question, currently SQLite replication with Litestream and DO Spaces will not work, though it should be supported in a future update.

To provide a bit more detail, App Platform runs apps and builds on top of gVisor using a virtual file system (VFS). The version of VFS being used does not support the f_getlk syscall which is required for SQLite to use the write ahead logs (WAL).

The good news is that in VFS2 this syscall is supported and we expect SQLite WAL should work, and in addition, Litestream.io.

References:

Trey Piepmeier • August 13, 2022

Is this still not possible?

walter.k.jenkins • February 4, 2024

Hey this is something that I am running into. I’d love to keep using the DigitalOcean app platform, but I really want to be able to persist sqlite on object storage. Even if it only works with DO Spaces that would be fine.