deploy-cloudrun VS Dokku

Examples for products in this category are: Google Cloud Run, AWS App Runner, Azure Container Apps. Each has different scalability, cost, and integration trade-offs.

Cloud Run is a managed platform that enables you to run container based workloads on top of Google infrastructure. Cloud Run automates many of the above steps and allows you to focus on developing and deploying updates to your application.

Serverless computing was also introduced, where the developers focus on their code instead of server configuration.Google offers serverless technologies that include Cloud Functions and Cloud Run.Cloud Functions manages event-driven code and offers a pay-as-you-go service, while Cloud Run allows clients to deploy their containerized microservice applications in a managed environment.

The quickest way is to deploy to Cloud Run. The service will use Dockerfile to build the production image. You can even omit the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS env var as these are in GCP’s projects by default.

In our company we use Google Cloud Run to deploy web applications, and every app is built into a docker image. For now we use the default memory limit by Cloud Run which is 256 MB per container. Recently we started to notice that the part of applications go beyond this limit, causing a container to restart and in some cases even resulting to downtime of a service.

It's perhaps a little fiddlier than other options, but you can probably host it on Google Cloud Run and it would fall within the free tier.

You can see more here on how to use the google cloud run github actions.

I wonder what the aversion is to using a plain old server / vps. It's really not that difficult to deploy nowadays [0][1][2][3] and I'd rather get an $8 bill every month as insurance than ever worry about shit like OP just went through. It'll probably be more performant anyway due to cold starts and "edge" still having to hit us-east-1 for data.. cache your static files with Cloud Flare/Front. People are always surprised by how much traffic a single VPS can take[4] and believe it all has to be serverless to be web scale. I believe HN still runs on a single core or something.

There's a ton of places to get cloud credits as well, too many to link, so just Bing™ it

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/v2/docs/aws-cdk-lib.aws_...

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/

[2] https://cloud.google.com/run

[3] https://render.com/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34676186

Google Cloud Run

Would be great to see a comparison to some better known alternatives like

- Dokku [0]

- CapRover [1]

[0] https://dokku.com/

[1] https://caprover.com/

If you want to dig into it anyways, Dokku is an interesting mention. They provide an Open Source PaaS that you can install on your server to simplify self hosting containers.

When I came across Coolify, I thought of giving it a try. I am aware of Dokku, but I never really tried it because it doesn't have a UI. I work primarily as a UI developer, so having a nice UI to work with is a plus for me.

I run all my projects on Dokku. It’s a sweet spot for me between a barebones VPS with Docker Compose and something a lot more complicated like k8s. Dokku comes with a bunch of solid plugins for databases that handle backups and such. Zero downtime deploys, TLS cert management, reverse proxies, all out of the box. It’s simple enough to understand in a weekend and has been quietly maintained for many years. The only downside is it’s meant mostly for single server deployments, but I’ve never needed another server so far.

https://dokku.com/

Yeah there are a bunch of selfhostable things:

Caprover (https://caprover.com/)

Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku)

But people still choose Netlify and Vercel for ease of use I think.

Maybe we need something that's just Netlify. The closest I've seen to the "right" UX is Ness:

https://ness.sh

The modern iteration of these tools has taken the developer experience learnings from the Platform as a Service (PaaS) category, and will bring them to your own VM, giving you your own personal PaaS. Example of this include Dokku, Coolify, Caprover, Cloud66 and many more!

Based on the fact that your ideal is to have a similar experience to heroku than managing your own server setting up reverse proxies take a look at these options:

1) https://dokku.com - lets you turn your light sail instance basically into heroku

2) https://render.com

3) https://fly.io

4) If you have aws credits this is their heroku equivalent: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk

above is not what I do but would be the options I would pursue if I understand your preference and requirement correctly.

All in all, I really recommend trying out Dokku if you are a developer interested in hosting your own projects. It makes it super easy to get everything you need to get up and running without having to worry about the specifics. And the price is impossible to beat!

The installation instructions are on the frontpage of our site. Thats basically all you need to do to install Dokku. As far as using it, we have a simplified tutorial here.