Question
How do I set up an App worker to run a LUA script?
- Posted on November 1, 2022
- DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by skeddtemp
Currently I have a droplet with a node web server and LUA installed. I also have an APP which runs a second server. Right now the web server executes the LUA app from the shell.
I’d like to move the LUA thing to the second server, and it seems like making it a worker would be the best bet.
Can anyone explain what the process for doing that is? Do I create it from Github or Docker Hub?
I know how to create the worker, and that I need to make it a “Dockerfile build”, but i have no idea how to use that or make it work or how I would send requests there or anything. Would I need to build a LUA web server to receive requests?
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i gave up because its too hard to setup
👋 @skeddtemp
Great question! Workers would be a good fit if you had a LUA app that continuously polled for “work” to do. So if that is looking in the DB for work or reaching out to the node server for more work. The important thing to note here is that workers are going out and finding the work, they cannot have ports exposed, so creating a web server won’t work.
If creating a web server IS what you’re interested in, then you may want to consider an internal service component. This is a service without any publicly accessible ports but internally accessible ones that can be accessed by other app components (like the node server).
As far as how this is created, LUA isn’t supported by App Platform buildpacks, so you’d have to create a dockerfile that has the right depdencies to run lua.
Hope this helps!