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!

Dokku

  • Open Source, Self-Hosted, Platform as a Service
  • Your very own Heroku