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- Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
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Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git
I got it to work under Piku (https://piku.github.io) in much the same way (since I support uwsgi, that bit was trivial).
I did have to hardcode the data path, and I think having some form of export/snapshot would help as well, but submitting a patch might be a fun weekend project.
- Caddy branch · piku/piku · Discussion #382
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piku: The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen
It's actually worth taking your joke seriously to compare and contrast:
- piku deploys via git rather than scp/sftp, but authenticates via ssh like those tools
- piku supports a number of runtimes, including Python, Ruby, Node, Go, Clojure. The runtimes are implemented rather simply, you can add your own rather easily, see examples here in the code: https://github.com/piku/piku/blob/8777cc093a062c67d3bead9a5d...
- For each runtime, a mechanism is utilized to install and isolate package dependencies (requirements.txt in Python, Gemfile in Ruby, packages.json in Node, etc.)
- a Procfile and ENV file are used to declare your application entrypoints, akin to Heroku / 12 Factor App ideas
- a CLI is provided for checking status and logs from the client
- since all applications are managed via uwsgi, there is also some support for cronjob-style tasks
- HTTPS via Let's Encrypt (acme.sh) is handled automagically for web apps
I describe more about how piku works in this tutorial:
https://github.com/piku/webapp-tutorial?tab=readme-ov-file#b...
You're right that PHP apps have a simple deployment story, and in a way piku brings something akin to this level of simplicity to other web programming runtimes.
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Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify
I should add one to https://piku.github.io (spoiler - this doesn't use Docker at all)
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Show HN: Hancho – A simple and pleasant build system in ~500 lines of Python
I like it. I wrote Piku (https://github.com/piku/piku) with much the same interest in fixing some of my pains, so I get where you're coming from with this. Will drop it into one of my current projects to build ESP32 binaries :)
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Gokrazy Is Cool
I never had any serious issue with SD cards since the Pi 2B (and I've kept Pis running for years).
Anyway, for those wanting to deploy more generic apps, that is why I initially wrote https://github.com/piku/piku - you still have to flash the OS (and rpi-imager does that with sane defaults these days), but once you're done you have Heroku-like deployments for any language runtime you install on the Pi.
I also have https://github.com/rcarmo/ground-init, a cloud-init like shim that simplifies setting up machines (I'm a big fan of cloud-init, but since Raspbian doesn't support it and Ubuntu on ARM requires some fiddling to make it work I decided it wasn't too hard to roll my own).
(I probably should look into glueing that into rpi-imager, but there is are only so many hours in the day...)
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Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS
I automated that away a long time ago: https://github.com/piku/piku/blob/master/piku.py#L814
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Tool to deploy docker images from github repos?
Piku https://github.com/piku/piku
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