Deploying

Your Dumb Ideas

With Dokku

Who am I?

Dave Smith-Hayes

• Developer
• Father
• JavaScript Enjoyer
• Web Software Deployer

What is deploying?

Releasing software to be used.

How it works for Web

• Have a DNS record point to an IP
• Have a webserver runnning at that IP
• Have that webserver proxy requests to the application

My history of deploying

• cPanel File Manager
• FTP to Shared Hosting
• $ git pull
• Jenkins & Ansible build VM Images
• Packer & Terraform build Continers

Doing it Yourself

• Do not use AWS, its too expensive
• Your small project is not worth the cost
• Use a small VPS from DigitalOcean or Linode
• Get a public IP address and root access

Blue/Green Deployment

What Dokku Does

• Creates a dokku user on your system
• Installs all the services for running Dokku
  • Docker
  • NGiNX

Create an application.

$ dokku apps:create chat.freedoom.party
-----> Creating chat.freedoom.party...
-----> Creating new app virtual host file...