Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?

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Quantale

#Productivity #Investing #Fintech 12 social mentions

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Fly.io

Https://fly.io - Easy Postgres clusters (but not managed).

#Cloud Computing #Developer Tools #Cloud Hosting 435 social mentions

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Ansistrano

Keep a simple tool like Ansible around for those spooky admin tricks and you can take advantage of the Ansistrano plugins for smooth deploy and rollback (Ruby's great Capistrano tool ported to Ansible). https://ansistrano.com/ It's pretty fantastic.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #IT Automation 2 social mentions

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Grafana

> CI GitHub Actions > deployments/rollbacks Docker. Scaleway offers a container registry that's ridiculously cheap[1]. Deployments are infrequent and executed manually. > DBs Again, Scaleway's managed RDS[2]. Outside these, we have setup Grafana + Loki cloud[3] for monitoring and alerting. They have a generous free plan. For easy product analytics that can be derived from the database we've a self hosted instance of Metabase[4]. [1]: https://www.scaleway.com/en/container-registry/ [2]: https://www.scaleway.com/en/database/ [3]: https://grafana.com/ [4]: https://www.metabase.com/.

#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions

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OikoLab

I run https://oikolab.com - it's a weather data service with global, hourly historical weather data from 1950 to 16-day forecast. It launched about a year ago and I think it's probably the largest data offering of its kind. I don't have dev ops experience (I still don't know much) so a lot of what I did was to exhaust the limits of the setup before implementing any new infrastructure, sort of learning as I go along, with many 'oh, so that's why they do this' moments. I've read about K8 but still can't see when I would need that though. A lot of what saved effort for me was to use off-the-shelf component whenever I can. I was quoted $10~20k to build a Django website for user & API management to connect to my back-end but it was much easier to use Azure API Management service (~$400/month), which also came with simple, reasonable looking web front-end that I was able to launch within a week. Before moving things to cloud (Digital Ocean), I've also exhausted what I was able to do with simple NAS servers (overall I processed about 200TB of raw data with ~1TB/day on-going using what I call a 'poor man's HPC' setup) - luckily I'm based out of Hong Kong so had access to fiber-optic internet at home.

#REST API #SaaS #Weather 28 social mentions

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Xen Orchestra

#Cloud Computing #Virtualization Platform #IT Automation 3 social mentions

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XCP-ng

#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform 37 social mentions

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Render

- Github Actions for CI but not a hard a requirement, I can run ops in my local computer when Github Actions is down. Cost: $210 /mo. Estimated cost in AWS: $2,800 /mo [0] https://render.com.

#Cloud Infrastructure #Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting 415 social mentions

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HatchBox

For the longest time I have used capistrano to deploy my projects on VPS from Cloud providers. It served me well but wasn't as convenient. At the start of this year I joined hands with Chris on https://hatchbox.io to work on cost effective deployment service. We are putting together all the deployment best practices we've learned over the years into this product in a cost effective way.

#Ruby On Rails #Ruby On Rails Deployment #DevOps Tools 20 social mentions

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CapRover

Have you ever tried CapRover? https://caprover.com/ Would be curious how it compares to some of these.

#PaaS #Cloud Computing #Container Tools 104 social mentions