docker-box VS shoe-string-server

Compare docker-box vs shoe-string-server and see what are their differences.

docker-box

A lightweight docker application platform for single servers. (by badsyntax)

shoe-string-server

A collection of scripts for running a bunch of services in docker on a budget (by mnahkies)
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docker-box shoe-string-server
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0.0 4.3
over 1 year ago 7 months ago
Shell JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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docker-box

Posts with mentions or reviews of docker-box. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-19.

shoe-string-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of shoe-string-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
  • My deployment platform is a shell script
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
    I have a very similar system[1] for my personal projects, only I use GitHub actions to push a docker image to ECR and a commit to a config repo bumping the tag. I then have a cronjob to pull the config repo and reconcile using docker compose.

    I wouldn't use it for serious stuff, but it's been working great for my random personal projects (biggest gap is if something crashes it'll stay crashed until manual intervention currently)

    - [1] https://github.com/mnahkies/shoe-string-server/pull/2

  • Majority of web apps could just run on a single server
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2024
    For my personal stuff that doesn't get any traffic I cobbled together some scripts to manage containers / SSL here https://github.com/mnahkies/shoe-string-server

    I don't think I ever got around to making it self healing if a container dies, but it does support gitops style deployments through a cronjob / conf repo similar to argocd

    It's been running happily on a <$10 / month aws lightsail instance for a few years now, though tbh I'd still reach for k8s for anything serious

  • Harbormaster: The anti-Kubernetes for your personal server
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2021
    Interestingly this seems like a pretty popular problem to solve.

    I made a similar thing recently as well, although with the goal to handle ingress and monitoring out the box as well, whilst still able to run comfortably on a small box.

    I took a fairly similar approach, leveraging docker-compose files, and using a single data directory for ease of backup (although it's on my to-do list to split out conf/data).

    If there was a way to get a truly slim and easy to setup k8s compatible environment I'd probably prefer that, but I couldn't find anything that wouldn't eat most of my small servers ram

    https://github.com/mnahkies/shoe-string-server if you're interested

  • Show HN: Shoe String Server
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Aug 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing docker-box and shoe-string-server you can also consider the following projects:

traefik-ondemand-plugin - Traefik plugin to scale containers on demand

watchtower - A process for automating Docker container base image updates.

harbormaster

hcl - HCL is the HashiCorp configuration language.

dokku-scheduler-nomad - Scheduler plugin for deploying applications to nomad

hbm - HBM is an application to authorize and manage authorized docker commands using Docker AuthZ plugin

hashi-ui - A modern user interface for @hashicorp Consul & Nomad

portainer-traefik-letsencrypt - This repository will help you install Portainer with Traefik and Let's Encrypt with much ease!

startpack - Selfhosted tech starter pack for development of new project or startup

git-pipe - Hassle-free minimal CI/CD for git repositories with docker or docker-compose projects.