How To: Deploy Next.js Apps with Docker Containers (Efficiently!)

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Yarn

If you want to follow along, you will need Docker Desktop and Yarn installed. To keep things replicable, I'm using the Next.js Blog-Starter-Typescript example in these instructions. You can set that up locally with this command:.

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Docker Hub

A starter image to build upon - usually this is a full operating system image with some pre-installed software from Docker Hub.

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Fly.io

Ok, so now that we have our app containerizing successfully, how do we actually deploy? For this, I've been using fly.io because their support for Docker is strong and their service has a generous free tier. But if you'd rather use Heroku or Digital Ocean they have strong support for Docker as well.

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