Deploying

Your Dumb Ideas

with Dokku

What is Deploying?

Publishing an application to be used.

A Brief History of Deploying

Shared Web Hosting

FTP

More Advanced Shared Hosting

Git

  1. $ ssh root@domain
  2. $ cd /usr/var/www
  3. $ git pull

Modern Build & Deployment Systems

AWS

Deployment as a Service

  • Heroku
  • Vercel

Dokku

(finally)

But first...

VPS

  • Easiest way to get a public IP
  • Cheap, modest servers, running Linux (Debian)
    • Linode
    • DigitalOcean
  • Root access!

Domains

  • Buy a domain
  • Update the Nameservers
  • Add A Record for the IP to the VPS

Dokku

  • Open Source, Self-Hosted, Platform as a Service
  • Your very own Heroku
I have never used Heroku...

Set Up

  • Install Dokku on VPS
  • Setting up Domains
  • Set up Dokku remote in your Git repo
  • Have a global Dockerfile in your code
  • $ git push -u dokku main
Buildpacks are responsible for transforming deployed code into a slug, which can then be executed on a dyno.
That feels made up.

Real Life Example