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Dokku | Docker Compose | |
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179 | 381 | |
25,843 | 32,095 | |
0.9% | 1.3% | |
9.9 | 9.6 | |
3 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Shell | Go | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Dokku
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The Hater's Guide to Kubernetes
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.
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Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site
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:
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
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!
- Ask HN: Is there an open source alternative to Digitalocean app platform?
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Ask HN: How are you hosting multiple small apps?
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
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.
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The Best Way to Deploy Your Own Apps
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!
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Zero downtime deployments of containers on locally running server
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.
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Top 8 Tools to Build Your Own PaaS
Dokku is a lightweight and open-source PaaS platform that simplifies application deployment by leveraging Docker. With Dokku, developers can easily push their applications using Git, allowing Dokku to build and run them in isolated containers. Its CLI-only approach and plugin architecture make it highly extensible. Dokku's modular plugins enable features like database integration, Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, and automated Slack notifications, giving developers flexibility and control over their PaaS environment.
- The Curse of Scalable Technology
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Most reliable PaaS for Rails apps?
This is a great tool if you want PaaS like UX but just want to run Rails on a single VM https://dokku.com/
Docker Compose
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How to Set Up a Docker Container
This foundation now opens the door to even more powerful concepts. You can explore more advanced concepts such as container networking, streamlining the management of complex applications with Docker Compose, and how to make your application data persistent using volumes.
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How to Dockerise a NodeJS - TypeScript API || A Comprehensive Guide from Environment Setup to Deployment with a CI/CD Pipeline
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
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Build and Deploy a ReactJS App to AWS EC2 with Docker, NGINX, and Automate with GitHub Actions.
[ec2-user]$ sudo yum update -y [ec2-user]$ sudo yum install -y docker [ec2-user]$ sudo service docker start [ec2-user]$ sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose [ec2-user]$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose [ec2-user]$ docker --version Docker version 20.10.23, build 7155243 [ec2-user]$ docker-compose --version Docker Compose version v2.18.1
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MongoDB on Your Local Machine Using Docker: A Step-by-Step Guide
Docker Compose Documentation
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Docker - Setup a local JS and Python Development environment (Part 2)
groupadd -g 997 docker gpasswd -a jenkins docker curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/tag/1.29.2/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose #confirm the docker-compose is installed docker-compose version
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Docker - Setup a local JS and Python Development environment
Now that we have our basic script to run the Node application, we'll create our base image. This time we will not be using the Dockerfile as we did earlier with the Python environment, but we will pull directly from the Docker Hub registry. Because we have multi-container services, it's best to orchestrate our services from a single file rather than building the services individually from a Dockerfile, which could be a daunting task if we need to build many services. Therefore, spinning up our Node containers with Docker Compose can be pretty handy in these situations. Note that Docker compose does not replace Dockerfile. Rather, the latter is part of a process to build Docker images, which are part of containers. Docker Compose allows us to operate the Node app alongside other services (assuming we have many services we need to spin up). In our case, it will be alongside our py service.
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Jump into Microservices Testing with Docker Compose and Skyramp
My previous blog posts have focused on the array of options Skyramp provides for testing distributed applications deployed to Kubernetes clusters. However, Kubernetes is not required to reap the benefits of using Skyramp for test automation. You can also setup and deploy your system-under-test using Docker Compose. In this article, we'll explore how you can leverage Skyramp in conjunction with Docker Compose to streamline your microservices testing process.
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Adding Dockerfiles to Open-Source Projects
From the official documentation,
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New computer? Install THIS first... 💻
Create a separate environment with several services working together, using Docker Compose
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Monitoring symfony messenger listening to the worker events
Docker and docker compose: We will use docker as a container manager and docker-compose as a tool to configure and start a redis container. If you have not used them so far, refer to the links to install them.
What are some alternatives?
coolify - An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.
supervisor - Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)
LibreNMS-docker - LibreNMS Docker image
CapRover - Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids
terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
docker-cloudflared - Cloudflared proxy-dns Docker image
portainer-templates - Various Portainer App Templates
acme-companion - Automated ACME SSL certificate generation for nginx-proxy