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I host several smallish PHP/HTML sites for family, friends, and a few clients. Is Kubernetes a viable solution. These sites get very little traffic. What I am

by matart 9y ago

I host several smallish PHP/HTML sites for family, friends, and a few clients. Is Kubernetes a viable solution. These sites get very little traffic. What I am looking for is: - Ability to easily deploy containers - Ability to route by url - Ability to swap out containers without affecting others Does Kubernetes solve this problem for me? Is there a better option?

Lerain 9y ago
I am using Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku) for exactly that and love it. If you've ever used Heroku, you'll feel right at home. When I looked into Kubernetes for my purposes, it seemed to be quite the overkill.
- max23_ 9y ago
  Just started using Dokku too and I love it partly because I was using Heroku before finding out Dokku.
bdcravens 9y ago
I think it'll be overkill for smaller sites, but it would work. AWS ECS is a bit simpler IMO. You may also want to look at Dokku, which gives you essentially Heroku in a box, and you can deploy either classic Heroku-style or Dockerfiles. You could run it on a very small Digital Ocean droplet.
bharani_m 9y ago
I am also interested in knowing this. Also, can Kubernetes be used to deploy to a single VPS instance (e.g: a 10$ Digital Ocean droplet) or is it only for a multi-node system like GKE?
- raesene9 9y ago
  Whilst you could deploy k8s to a single node, it's massive overkill for that kind of solution. The benefit I see in it is orchestration of large clusters of containers. The offset against that benefit is that there's quite a lot of complexity involved. For single node solutions, if you want to use containers at all, I'd just use docker.
- t3h2mas 9y ago
  I agree with raesene9 here. Docker plus a proxy (haproxy, traffaek, and docker-flow-proxy come to mind) would do the trick.
- cgag 9y ago
  You can use GKE with a single node if it's big enough (it won't let you do it with the absolute smallest instance). I do it because I just like the k8s model for deploying apps. If any of my sideprojects deployed there ever start to matter I'll scale it up.
cookiecaper 9y ago
Use a shared host like Dreamhost. It is much cheaper and much less time consuming than Kubernetes.
styfle 9y ago
I second Dreamhost[0] for PHP/HTML. I would also recommend you checkout now[1] for deploying containers and adding ability to add route by path[2]. [0]: https://www.dreamhost.com/ https://www.dreamhost.com/ [1]: https://zeit.co/now https://zeit.co/now [2]: https://zeit.co/blog/path-alias https://zeit.co/blog/path-alias

by matart 9y ago

Lerain 9y ago

I am using Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku) for exactly that and love it. If you've ever used Heroku, you'll feel right at home. When I looked into Kubernetes for my purposes, it seemed to be quite the overkill.

max23_ 9y ago
Just started using Dokku too and I love it partly because I was using Heroku before finding out Dokku.

bdcravens 9y ago

I think it'll be overkill for smaller sites, but it would work. AWS ECS is a bit simpler IMO. You may also want to look at Dokku, which gives you essentially Heroku in a box, and you can deploy either classic Heroku-style or Dockerfiles. You could run it on a very small Digital Ocean droplet.

bharani_m 9y ago

I am also interested in knowing this. Also, can Kubernetes be used to deploy to a single VPS instance (e.g: a 10$ Digital Ocean droplet) or is it only for a multi-node system like GKE?

raesene9 9y ago
Whilst you could deploy k8s to a single node, it's massive overkill for that kind of solution. The benefit I see in it is orchestration of large clusters of containers. The offset against that benefit is that there's quite a lot of complexity involved. For single node solutions, if you want to use containers at all, I'd just use docker.
t3h2mas 9y ago
I agree with raesene9 here. Docker plus a proxy (haproxy, traffaek, and docker-flow-proxy come to mind) would do the trick.
cgag 9y ago
You can use GKE with a single node if it's big enough (it won't let you do it with the absolute smallest instance). I do it because I just like the k8s model for deploying apps. If any of my sideprojects deployed there ever start to matter I'll scale it up.

cookiecaper 9y ago

Use a shared host like Dreamhost. It is much cheaper and much less time consuming than Kubernetes.

styfle 9y ago

I second Dreamhost[0] for PHP/HTML. I would also recommend you checkout now[1] for deploying containers and adding ability to add route by path[2]. [0]: https://www.dreamhost.com/ https://www.dreamhost.com/ [1]: https://zeit.co/now https://zeit.co/now [2]: https://zeit.co/blog/path-alias https://zeit.co/blog/path-alias