Deploy Umami on Render

Umami is a great piece of open source software, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.

I use it to track visitors on the website of my Brazilian startup Código Do Bem and company page TICI Tecnologia; for this personal blog thomascenni.com I'm using another open source analytics software called Plausible.

Until now I was using the Railway service, which works great but the free tier rapidly goes out of limits (in execution hours, not in free credits available).

So i decided to have a look at Render and was surprised on how is simple (even than Railway) to deploy the Umami software using their blueprint specification.

I created the following render.yaml file:

services:
  - type: web
    name: umami
    env: docker
    repo: https://github.com/thomascenni/umami.git
    region: oregon # optional (defaults to oregon)
    plan: free
    branch: main
    numInstances: 1
    envVars:
      - key: DATABASE_URL
        fromDatabase:
          name: umami-db
          property: connectionString
      - key: HASH_SALT
        generateValue: true

databases:
  - name: umami-db
    plan: free
    databaseName: umami
    user: umami

It basically uses the free plan (you don't even need to put your credit card) to create a PostgreSQL database (umami-db service) and to run the official Umami Docker image (umami service), defined in the Dockerfile available in this repository:

FROM ghcr.io/umami-software/umami:postgresql-v2.10.2

To deploy to your Render account, just click on the following button:

or visit https://github.com/thomascenni/umami for more information.

Thomas