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

• A domain
• A server with a public IP address
• A webserver
• Patience

Dokku

Self-hosted platform as a service

Your very own Heroku

What Dokku Does

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

Anatomy of the Server

• Linode VPS
• Debian

Anatomy of the Application

• Hono Web Server Application
• Mithril.js Frontend Application
• Dockerized