Does Your Startup Need Complex Cloud Infrastructure?

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k3s

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Cloud Computing 179 social mentions

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Docker Secrets

Yes, swarm is not deprecated. I haven't used it myself yet, but I read elsewhere that swarm offers an easy way to manage secrets with containers. Some people run their 1 container in a swarm cluster with 1 node just for this feature. I see it's even officially suggested as a Note in the doc: > Docker secrets are only available to swarm services, not to standalone containers. To use this feature, *consider adapting your container to run as a service. Stateful containers can typically run with a scale of 1 without changing the container code.* (Emphasis mine. From https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/secrets/ ).

#Secrets Management #Security & Privacy #Web Development Tools 24 social mentions

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CapRover

Docker Compose Anywhere looks cool. Looks similar, on principle, to [CapRover](https://caprover.com/) which I highly appreciate.

#PaaS #Cloud Computing #Container Tools 111 social mentions

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Dokku

> For all the people who are saying you don’t need X and Y - what is the simplest way to deploy a web app using TLS on a VPS/VM? Depends on your defintion of simplest. In terms of set-up probably someting like https://dokku.com/ . It's a simple self-hosted version of herokku, you can be up and running in literally minutes and because its compatable with herokku you can re-use lots of github action/ other build scripts. In terms of simple (low complexity and small sized components) just install caddy as your reverse-proxy which will do ssl certs and reverse proxy for you with extremely little, if any config. Then just have your github action push your containers there using whatever container set-up you prefer. This is usually a simple script on your build process like "build container -> push container to registry -> tell machine to get new image and run it" or even simpler just have your server check for updated images routinely if you don't want to handle communication between build script and server. That's the bare minimum needed. This takes a bit longer than a few minutes but you can still be done within an hour or two. Regardless of your choice it shouldn't take more than 1 working day, and will save you a lot of money compared to the big cloud providers. You can run as low as €4.51/month with hetzner and that includes a static IP and basically unlimited traffic. An EC2 instance with the same hardware costs about $23 a month for comparison (yes shared vs dedicated vCPU, but even the dedicated offer at hetzner is cheaper, and this is compared to a serverless set-up where loads are spikey, which is exactly how we can benefit from a shared vCPU situation).

#IT Automation #Backend As A Service #PaaS 24 social mentions