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The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers. (by piku)

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  • piku: The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2024
    It's actually worth taking your joke seriously to compare and contrast:

    - piku deploys via git rather than scp/sftp, but authenticates via ssh like those tools

    - piku supports a number of runtimes, including Python, Ruby, Node, Go, Clojure. The runtimes are implemented rather simply, you can add your own rather easily, see examples here in the code: https://github.com/piku/piku/blob/8777cc093a062c67d3bead9a5d...

    - For each runtime, a mechanism is utilized to install and isolate package dependencies (requirements.txt in Python, Gemfile in Ruby, packages.json in Node, etc.)

    - a Procfile and ENV file are used to declare your application entrypoints, akin to Heroku / 12 Factor App ideas

    - a CLI is provided for checking status and logs from the client

    - since all applications are managed via uwsgi, there is also some support for cronjob-style tasks

    - HTTPS via Let's Encrypt (acme.sh) is handled automagically for web apps

    I describe more about how piku works in this tutorial:

    https://github.com/piku/webapp-tutorial?tab=readme-ov-file#b...

    You're right that PHP apps have a simple deployment story, and in a way piku brings something akin to this level of simplicity to other web programming runtimes.

  • Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2024
    I should add one to https://piku.github.io (spoiler - this doesn't use Docker at all)
  • Show HN: Hancho – A simple and pleasant build system in ~500 lines of Python
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2024
    I like it. I wrote Piku (https://github.com/piku/piku) with much the same interest in fixing some of my pains, so I get where you're coming from with this. Will drop it into one of my current projects to build ESP32 binaries :)
  • Gokrazy Is Cool
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023
    I never had any serious issue with SD cards since the Pi 2B (and I've kept Pis running for years).

    Anyway, for those wanting to deploy more generic apps, that is why I initially wrote https://github.com/piku/piku - you still have to flash the OS (and rpi-imager does that with sane defaults these days), but once you're done you have Heroku-like deployments for any language runtime you install on the Pi.

    I also have https://github.com/rcarmo/ground-init, a cloud-init like shim that simplifies setting up machines (I'm a big fan of cloud-init, but since Raspbian doesn't support it and Ubuntu on ARM requires some fiddling to make it work I decided it wasn't too hard to roll my own).

    (I probably should look into glueing that into rpi-imager, but there is are only so many hours in the day...)

  • Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    I automated that away a long time ago: https://github.com/piku/piku/blob/master/piku.py#L814
  • Tool to deploy docker images from github repos?
    7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 15 Mar 2023
    Piku https://github.com/piku/piku
  • Stupid question: Why not use 'baremetal' OS instead of docker containers to run web apps?
    2 projects | /r/hetzner | 13 Mar 2023
    So, stupid question: why couldn't I just use the 'baremetal' OS provided by Hetzner, install Postgres, Redis & node, create a separate db for each app, and run each app with https://github.com/piku/piku on a different port? For backups, I'll setup crontab to dump dbs locally and to S3.
  • Selfhosted PaaS? (No dokku pls)
    13 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Dec 2022
    piku?
  • How do you deploy your side-projects?
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2022
  • Ask HN: What's Your Proudest Hack?
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2022
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