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Show HN: Run your own PaaS based on Docker and Traefik /w LetsEncrypt and stats

16 points by almarklein 6y ago

ramon 6y ago
What about just docker swarm and swarmpit with traefik?
- almarklein 6y ago
  I did not know swarmpit yet. That seems really nice and it looks like it has overlapping goals with MyPaas. Does it allow you to do remote deploys?
  - ramon 6y ago
    Yes that is what they call service deploy. If Swarmpit doesn't satisfy you on deployment you can use Apollo or command-line. It's all up to you. Swarmpit is like having a kubernetes interface without the overbloat of Kubernetes. If Swarmpit evolves in the future it will not makes sense the Kubernetes. I am almost finishing a swarm only setup in 512 MB of free RAM. For Kubernetes you need at least 4 GB.
  - ramon 6y ago
    I just did an article now showing how you can do the swarmpit setup easy: https://dev.to/ramonck/free-docker-cluster-mesh-with-swarm-and-gcp-3e55 https://dev.to/ramonck/free-docker-cluster-mesh-with-swarm-a...
withinboredom 6y ago
Some suggestions/questions for the readmes: - It would be nice to have some screenshots in the status/analytics sections. - Does this use docker hub or does it push the raw docker image to the server or does it build on the server? - How can we deploy docker hub images (for cases where the image is built by CI or using a cache or something)? - It might be a good example to link to the examples directory from the readme. I almost suggested some examples, but then turned off my extension that hides the files on the repo homepage. :)
- almarklein 6y ago
  Thanks, I will update the readme to include more info. To answer some: It pushes a zipped directory to the server, which includes a Dockerfile. There, the server builds the image and deploys it. Deploying pre-build images is probably best done by using a Dockerfile that uses FROM to point to the pre-build image.
fish_n_chips 6y ago
this looks quite interesting, but if I have my system defined in a docker-compose file which is effectively multiple containers, will this support that?
- rudasn 6y ago
  Do you know of any tools that do this?
  - fish_n_chips 6y ago
    docker swarm and kubenetes springs to mind, with the latter an overkill for a solo/developer...
- almarklein 6y ago
  No, at the moment it does not support Docker-compose.
joshstrange 6y ago
If you are looking for something that is a little more turn-key than this I highly recommend CapRover [0]. I've been using it for years as my POC project PaaS. I haven't yet used it for anything production-facing but I've used it to test out ideas really quickly without having to think about billing (It's on a $20/mo droplet but I used to run it on a $5/mo before I added more projects to it). I use it to prototype/test ideas quickly, get DB/Api/Client up, running, and publicly accessible (with HTTPS) without much hassle. It has a number of "one-click" installs for stuff like WP, Jenkins, popular DB's, popular Queues, etc but also supports running docker images (which means PHP/Node/etc support is super easy). There is also multi-host support but I've never personally used that as, again, I use this just for dev and then move to AWS/DO once I have proven it out and I am willing to pay for DB's/EC2 instances. I'm not affiliated in any way, just someone who likes it. [0] https://caprover.com/ https://caprover.com/
- almarklein 6y ago
  Thanks. Yes, CapRover seems really nice. And also see Dokku. At some point in the past I decided both did not suit my needs. I can't remember the details exactly, but one thing with CapRover was that auth goes via username and password only, which I don't feel is safe enough (MyPaas uses RSA key pairs). Anyway, I started out by tying Docker and Traefik together with a mix of Python and bash scripts. Eventually I decided to roll that together into something easier to maintain, so its also useful for others. And "others" includes my future self ;)
  - josegonzalez 6y ago
    Just curious, what about Dokku didn't meet your needs? I'm the current maintainer of the project, hence the question :)
    - almarklein 6y ago
      I recall that Let's Encrypt was somewhat untrivial to setup (but this may have changed?). And I liked the idea of just pushing a container/recipy with metadata and let the server handle the rest. I should add that when I found out about Dokku and CapRover I was already using Traefik+Docker, so I was also simply biased for Traefik (Traefik is awesome).

16 points by almarklein 6y ago

ramon 6y ago

What about just docker swarm and swarmpit with traefik?

almarklein 6y ago
I did not know swarmpit yet. That seems really nice and it looks like it has overlapping goals with MyPaas. Does it allow you to do remote deploys?
- ramon 6y ago
  Yes that is what they call service deploy. If Swarmpit doesn't satisfy you on deployment you can use Apollo or command-line. It's all up to you. Swarmpit is like having a kubernetes interface without the overbloat of Kubernetes. If Swarmpit evolves in the future it will not makes sense the Kubernetes. I am almost finishing a swarm only setup in 512 MB of free RAM. For Kubernetes you need at least 4 GB.
- ramon 6y ago
  I just did an article now showing how you can do the swarmpit setup easy: https://dev.to/ramonck/free-docker-cluster-mesh-with-swarm-and-gcp-3e55 https://dev.to/ramonck/free-docker-cluster-mesh-with-swarm-a...

withinboredom 6y ago

Some suggestions/questions for the readmes: - It would be nice to have some screenshots in the status/analytics sections. - Does this use docker hub or does it push the raw docker image to the server or does it build on the server? - How can we deploy docker hub images (for cases where the image is built by CI or using a cache or something)? - It might be a good example to link to the examples directory from the readme. I almost suggested some examples, but then turned off my extension that hides the files on the repo homepage. :)

almarklein 6y ago
Thanks, I will update the readme to include more info. To answer some: It pushes a zipped directory to the server, which includes a Dockerfile. There, the server builds the image and deploys it. Deploying pre-build images is probably best done by using a Dockerfile that uses FROM to point to the pre-build image.

fish_n_chips 6y ago

this looks quite interesting, but if I have my system defined in a docker-compose file which is effectively multiple containers, will this support that?

rudasn 6y ago
Do you know of any tools that do this?
- fish_n_chips 6y ago
  docker swarm and kubenetes springs to mind, with the latter an overkill for a solo/developer...
almarklein 6y ago
No, at the moment it does not support Docker-compose.

joshstrange 6y ago

If you are looking for something that is a little more turn-key than this I highly recommend CapRover [0]. I've been using it for years as my POC project PaaS. I haven't yet used it for anything production-facing but I've used it to test out ideas really quickly without having to think about billing (It's on a $20/mo droplet but I used to run it on a $5/mo before I added more projects to it). I use it to prototype/test ideas quickly, get DB/Api/Client up, running, and publicly accessible (with HTTPS) without much hassle. It has a number of "one-click" installs for stuff like WP, Jenkins, popular DB's, popular Queues, etc but also supports running docker images (which means PHP/Node/etc support is super easy). There is also multi-host support but I've never personally used that as, again, I use this just for dev and then move to AWS/DO once I have proven it out and I am willing to pay for DB's/EC2 instances. I'm not affiliated in any way, just someone who likes it. [0] https://caprover.com/ https://caprover.com/

almarklein 6y ago
Thanks. Yes, CapRover seems really nice. And also see Dokku. At some point in the past I decided both did not suit my needs. I can't remember the details exactly, but one thing with CapRover was that auth goes via username and password only, which I don't feel is safe enough (MyPaas uses RSA key pairs). Anyway, I started out by tying Docker and Traefik together with a mix of Python and bash scripts. Eventually I decided to roll that together into something easier to maintain, so its also useful for others. And "others" includes my future self ;)
- josegonzalez 6y ago
  Just curious, what about Dokku didn't meet your needs? I'm the current maintainer of the project, hence the question :)
  - almarklein 6y ago
    I recall that Let's Encrypt was somewhat untrivial to setup (but this may have changed?). And I liked the idea of just pushing a container/recipy with metadata and let the server handle the rest. I should add that when I found out about Dokku and CapRover I was already using Traefik+Docker, so I was also simply biased for Traefik (Traefik is awesome).