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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.

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).

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).