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Dokku
sequencer | Dokku | |
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2 | 184 | |
19 | 26,362 | |
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3.6 | 9.9 | |
6 days ago | 5 days ago | |
Go | Shell | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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A Better Way to Code: Documentation Driven Development
I really love this idea in theory, and I believe that for some system, specially mature ones, it may work well. I see good documentation as a super power; it empowers readers and motivate people to understand more about the system without being caught in the weeds of reading the source.
The source has baggages, and the intent of every single function calls is not always evident. Writing documentation up-front can help direct the source, but this is a tug-of-war environment. Each affect the other in its own ways.
And for that reason, documentation driven development can be a real drag. You start writing documentation with the best intentions, everything works great for this first release. But 2 months down the road you need to modify something and it has a ripple effect on many of the things you documented. It's a non-negligible cost.
I've been working on this open-source tool(https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer) and I've spent a lot of time on the documentation. And what I described above happened. I wanted to make a not-too-big change, and it required me to rewrite 30% of the documentation. I still love the documentation aspect of it, but it definitively has a cost.
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piku: The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen
First time I read about piku. I have no idea why, but the feeling of `git push` to initiate a deployment like piku does always felt magical to me. There's nothing simpler than that.
This is timely for me as well as I just open sourced (yesterday!) a project that is in the same space, but for Kubernetes (https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer).
All of this to say, congrats! It looks great.
Dokku
- piku: The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen
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Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify
Would be great to see a comparison to some better known alternatives like
- Dokku [0]
- CapRover [1]
[0] https://dokku.com/
[1] https://caprover.com/
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Hosting old Node Projects 👴🏼
If you want to dig into it anyways, Dokku is an interesting mention. They provide an Open Source PaaS that you can install on your server to simplify self hosting containers.
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Deploy Node.js applications on a VPS using Coolify
When I came across Coolify, I thought of giving it a try. I am aware of Dokku, but I never really tried it because it doesn't have a UI. I work primarily as a UI developer, so having a nice UI to work with is a plus for me.
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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.
https://dokku.com/
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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:
https://ness.sh
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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
2) https://render.com
3) https://fly.io
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!
What are some alternatives?
coolify - An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.
CapRover - Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids
Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
swarmpit - Lightweight mobile-friendly Docker Swarm management UI
porter - Kubernetes powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud.
piku - The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers.
Docker - Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data
Docker Swarm - Source repo for Docker's Documentation
kubevela - The Modern Application Platform.
synology-docker - An Unofficial Script to Update or Restore Docker Engine and Docker Compose on Synology
Mail-in-a-Box - Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.