Face Recognition Integration with Frappe Cloud – Clarification Needed

Frappe Cloud
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I have developed a Face Recognition service using FastAPI + Uvicorn, running on:

0.0.0.0:8002

This service handles:

  1. Employee Registration – capturing and storing face data.

  2. Employee Check-in/Check-out Validation – verifying the employee’s face.

Everything works on my local server, but I am facing challenges moving this system into Frappe Cloud.

Issues I Need Clarification On

1. Running a Custom Service (systemctl) on Frappe Cloud

Locally, I run my FastAPI server using a systemd service (systemctl).
However, Frappe Cloud does not allow:

  • Creating custom systemd services

  • Running background services

  • Opening custom ports like 8002

How can I run my FastAPI face recognition service inside Frappe Cloud?

2. Opening Custom Ports or Port Forwarding

My FastAPI server requires a public endpoint (currently 0.0.0.0:8002).
In Frappe Cloud:

  • Custom port exposure is not allowed

  • Port forwarding is not supported

  • Only the frappe/nginx service is exposed through HTTPS

How can I expose my FastAPI endpoint (e.g. https://mydomain.com/face-api) inside Frappe Cloud?

3. Frappe Server Script API Is Too Slow

Right now, I am using Frappe Server Scripts to call my API, but the latency becomes very slow.
I need a better integration method that is:

  • Fast

  • Secure

  • Cloud-friendly

What I Want to Achieve

I want to deploy my face recognition FastAPI service so it works inside or alongside Frappe Cloud with:

  • A proper domain (instead of 0.0.0.0:8002)

  • Fast response time for registration and validation

  • Clean integration with the Employee and Attendance doctypes

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All plans below 200$ on Frappe Cloud are shared hosting hence the restrictions.

Maybe host your services on a separate server and communicate via API (it shouldn’t be slow, but you can handle all images on server rather than having frappe in the middle)

3

ok thank you. Are there any existing custom apps that I can implement into my site?

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Check these

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Frappe Cloud won’t let you run systemd or long‑running custom services, so the usual FastAPI + Uvicorn setup can’t live there directly. I’ve had to move similar workloads to a tiny external VPS and call them from Frappe through whitelisted API endpoints. Reverse Image Search Twitter came in handy for me while testing face-matching flows, so an external service setup felt natural. A small VM or container host is usually the clean fix.