Allow connecting to non-HTTP services from outside Render | Feature Requests

Allow connecting to non-HTTP services from outside Render

Jason Barbee

I can connect to any non-HTTP port from within my private network, but I'd like to expose non-HTTP ports outside Render as well.

This is useful for connecting to debugger ports, and to host public apps that don't use HTTP (e.g. Git, VPN, DNS and email).

September 3, 2019

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Omar Diab

I want to use this in combination with Neon Postgres's recent IP Allow List feature, to run a Tailscale node that runs their pgproxy application with a predictable outbound IP (https://tailscale.com/blog/introducing-pgproxy), to allow developer database access secured by Tailscale.

Unfortunately because Postgres runs over TCP, Render doesn't work for this. Furthermore, Railway and Fly.io doesn't work since they don't suppport fixed outbound IPs (https://community.railway.app/discuss/thread/support-dedicated-outbound-static-i-ps-fo-741d24d1) (https://community.fly.io/t/outbound-ip-address/1366), and I'm trying to avoid bringing in the complexity of AWS/Google Cloud/etc into our infrastructure. Seems like Digital Ocean is the best option for us right now.

Steve Frost

Need this to connect to MongoDB remotely and also to be able to run Payload CMS on Render.

Martin Seigneuret

We all need this feature asap, what is the point to disallow it 😭😭

Swift Admin

+1 we need this to be able to connect to pgbouncer from an external app

Marcelino Borges

Common Render!
We need this!
I'm trying to send a message to my RabbitMQ web service from another API and I just can't do it!
What the goal of making it easy to use rabbitmq and not allowing external requests to 'amqp://...' ?

Kevin Haggerty

Important! Trying to deploy a cube.js application stack and it's got an SQL api that it exposes over the default postgres port of 5432. Can't connect and now I know why!

Ankur Pansari

How does redis-CLI allow me / my team to connect locally from an application during development in order to ensure it's working correctly without having to push the application just to hit the endpoint? These seemingly bizarre decisions make it hard to take Render seriously as our backend. Now that I know we can't host anything except web apps, we will start looking elsewhere ASAP! Thanks for letting us know.

John Slemmer

I think this is also important for doing any sort of IOT applications. Ideally you would have an open port to an MQTT server (or something). Anyway, this would be an awesome feature.

Sumit Kumar

Important for Redis too

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