Hyperdrive doesn’t work inside Cloudflare Containers

[vinerz]

Hey folks!

I’ve been playing around with Cloudflare Containers and ran into something I couldn’t quite figure out... Ok, I concede, I’m not just playing. I’m too early of an adopter and actually running it in production for a multi-million daily hits Worker powering… stateless WordPress. Yep, WordPress, you read that right. You only live once, after all.

I tried wiring up Hyperdrive inside a container by passing the connection string through env vars, something like:

envVars = {
  DB_CONN_STRING: env.HYPERDRIVE.connectionString
}

…but the container just fails to connect.

So I’m wondering:

• Am I missing something obvious in setup/usage?
• Or is this just not supported in containers yet?
• If it’s a limitation, is support for Hyperdrive inside containers on the roadmap?

Would be great to know if I should keep digging or just accept that Hyperdrive + containers isn’t a thing (yet).

Thanks for the awesome work on this project!

[emily-shen]

Hey, hyperdrive from inside a container isn't supported currently - its on the roadmap though, but we don't have an ETA yet 🧡

[vinerz]

Hey @emily-shen, thanks a ton for the quick reply!
I’ll be keeping an eye on Containers updates for sure.

Is there a best channel/page to track changelogs and new features as they roll out, or is there a secret newsletter for brave early adopters? 👀

[emily-shen]

Hey @emily-shen, thanks a ton for the quick reply! I’ll be keeping an eye on Containers updates for sure.

Is there a best channel/page to track changelogs and new features as they roll out, or is there a secret newsletter for brave early adopters? 👀

changelog here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/?product=containers, but we've historically not been the speediest about posting containers changes there, possibly the best place would be the discord #containers-beta channel. https://discord.com/invite/cloudflaredev