Does Your Startup Need Complex Cloud Infrastructure?

1. docker-mailserver

   1 95 16,566 9.0 Shell

   Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.

   

   - heck, if you really wanted to, you could even self-host a mail server: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver (though that can be viewed as a hobbyist thing), or have MailCatcher / Inbucket or something for development locally

2. InfluxDB

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3. helm-charts

   2 106 5,577 9.8 Mustache

   Prometheus community Helm charts

   

   The go to solution for a k8s monitoring setup is https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/mai...

4. k3s

   3 318 29,943 9.7 Go

   Lightweight Kubernetes

   

   What you also can do is starting with just a single node, incredibly easy to install with e.g. https://k3s.io/. You still have to invest the upfront effort to understand how it works but you can already reap a lot of benefits with a lot less complexity.

   Kubernetes does not force you into the distributed systems hell, you can go that route later, or never.

5. terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner

   4 27 3,022 9.4 HCL

   Optimized and Maintenance-free Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud in one command!

   

6. terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne

   5 9 - -

7. kamal

   6 81 12,762 9.6 Ruby

   Deploy web apps anywhere.

   

   I've been looking at using Kamal for a side project. Seems to be similar in spirit. Has anybody used it, and if so, what do you think?

   https://github.com/basecamp/kamal

8. Dokku

   7 199 30,646 9.9 Shell

   A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

   

   > For all the people who are saying you don’t need X and Y - what is the simplest way to deploy a web app using TLS on a VPS/VM?

   Depends on your defintion of simplest. In terms of set-up probably someting like https://dokku.com/ . It's a simple self-hosted version of herokku, you can be up and running in literally minutes and because its compatable with herokku you can re-use lots of github action/ other build scripts.

   In terms of simple (low complexity and small sized components) just install caddy as your reverse-proxy which will do ssl certs and reverse proxy for you with extremely little, if any config. Then just have your github action push your containers there using whatever container set-up you prefer. This is usually a simple script on your build process like "build container -> push container to registry -> tell machine to get new image and run it" or even simpler just have your server check for updated images routinely if you don't want to handle communication between build script and server. That's the bare minimum needed. This takes a bit longer than a few minutes but you can still be done within an hour or two.

   Regardless of your choice it shouldn't take more than 1 working day, and will save you a lot of money compared to the big cloud providers. You can run as low as €4.51/month with hetzner and that includes a static IP and basically unlimited traffic. An EC2 instance with the same hardware costs about $23 a month for comparison (yes shared vs dedicated vCPU, but even the dedicated offer at hetzner is cheaper, and this is compared to a serverless set-up where loads are spikey, which is exactly how we can benefit from a shared vCPU situation).

9. SaaSHub

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10. Vault

    8 179 32,612 9.9 Go

    A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

    

    > Bootstrapping a new system is checking in their ssh key and running a shell script.

    If it interests you, both major git hosts (and possibly all of them) have and endpoint to map a username to their already registered ssh keys: https://github.com/mdaniel.keys https://gitlab.com/mdaniel.keys

    It's one level of indirection away from "check in a public key" in that the user can rotate their own keys without needing git churn

    Also, and I recognize this is departing quite a bit from what you were describing, ssh key leases are absolutely awesome because it addresses the offboarding scenario much better than having to negatively reconcile evicting those same keys: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/v1.12.11/website/con... and while digging up that link I also discovered that Vault will allegedly do single-use passwords, too <https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/v1.12.11/website/con...>, but since I am firmly in the "PasswordLogin no" camp, caveat emptor with that one

11. Flatcar

    9 25 887 4.8 Python

    Flatcar project repository for issue tracking, project documentation, etc.

    

    Like everything, it's context dependent, but wowzers my life has improved so much since I got on board the Flatcar or Bottlerocket train of immutable OS. Flatcar (née CoreOS) does ship with docker but is still mostly a general purpose OS but Bottlerocket is about as "cloud native" as it comes, shipping with kubelet and even the host processes run in containers. For my purposes (being a k8s fanboy) that's just perfect since it's one less bootstrapping step I need to take on my own

    Both are Apache 2 and the Flatcar folks are excellent to work with

    https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar#readme

    https://github.com/bottlerocket-os#bottlerocket

12. docker-compose-anywhere

    10 3 275 9.0 Python

    Effortlessly deploy Docker Compose apps in production with zero downtime using an opinionated template 🛠️

    

    The author posted almost exactly this.

    https://github.com/hadijaveed/docker-compose-anywhere

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