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Installing Dokku [0] is pretty easy on a VPS, and ergonomically it's felt a lot like (a cheaper) Heroku to me (although I only ever used the free apps). I just use the Heroku docs to create apps I can run on Dokku.
Now, you need to deploy Dokku so I get how the two are dissimilar, but I wonder what it would look like for a company to try to offer managed dokku instances (perhaps this is already a thing?).
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The public roadmap is a good idea but highlights how stale the product has become. https://github.com/heroku/roadmap/issues Only now researching adding Cloud Native Build Packs and HTTP2.
This will reaffirm for many the sense that Heroku is being dismantled from within. Feature sunsetting and removal of a free on-ramp doesn't help.
If you're looking for a production alternative to Heroku checkout Northflank.
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There are 66K thousand forks of https://github.com/nightscout/cgm-remote-monitor and I suspect the vast majority are using the free heroku version, so I would guess there are going to be quite a few unhappy diabetics!
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What do you mean? There's so many Heroku competitors now that the perception is that Heroku is a relic of "how it used to be done". Competitors like Vercel don't just do what Heroku does, they do everything better.
Another start-up I've been playing with is Railway, who offers 5-10$ of free usage per month, certainly enough to play with react/nextjs app and a postgres db to your hobbyists hearts content (as long as you turn if off when you're done).
If I were to host a bootcamp on starting a web app from scratch I'd do something like stand-up a T3 App https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app on Vercel Hobby https://www.vercel.com . Not sure I'd even consider Heroku for teaching anymore.
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Could you go into one more level of detail about your app? I think this will help me better understand content for some documentation.
Here's the rough bits of what Fly has:
1. There's a release command (https://fly.io/docs/reference/configuration/#run-one-off-com...) that runs after the container is built, but before its deployed. In Rails that's when a database migration would be run.
2. To run a task after the application is deployed, there's shell access. Here's what that looks like for running Rails tasks: https://fly.io/docs/rails/the-basics/run-tasks-and-consoles/
3. Pre-deployment/build commands can be run from the Dockerfile, like a Rails asset compilation. Here's a link to that https://github.com//superfly/flyctl/blob/master/scanner/temp...
I recognize that this is a lot for folks who aren't comfortable configuring stuff and want the "no-config ease" of Heroku, but it's at least possible on Fly.
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piku
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This is an unsatisfactory answer, but Fly does run Java/JVM apps via Dockerfiles. The best docs we have for it at the moment are at https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/dockerfile/, but its clearly not written for folks who want to deploy Java apps.
If somebody deploys a Java app to Fly, please consider documenting it at https://github.com/superfly/docs/tree/main/getting-started and we'll merge it into https://fly.io/docs/
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