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Deploying Dumb Ideas with Dokku
A talk describing how we can easily deploy applications with Dokku using a simple VPS and doing some DNS work.
- What is deployment when it comes to the web?
- Talk about the VPS, how it works
- Install Dokku the service on the VPS
- Talk about the DNS setup
- Do a cost breakdown
Deploy the talk on the blog as well
The Dumb Idea
A simple Chat application built with Hono and Mithril.js
Talk About the History
What was my first deployment?
Using the file manager in cPanel. Then using SVN on the server. Upgrading to Git, on the server. A lot WHM
Developing with Vagrant and virtual machines
Moving to AWS, EC2 Using VPS providers like DigitalOcean
Building Container images
What is Deployment
What does a node.js application look like? Running express.js as a service on the server Maybe have a reverse proxy for the web service
Deploying the code in place, take the service down or deploy on another port and update the nginx config to point to the new service
DNS, and how DNS plays a role in pointing the domain to the server
show some diagrams
Talk about the SSL cert situation Talk about building VM images or containers for deployment
"What about K8s?" I don't know or really care, honestly
What does Dokku do for us?
Reverse proxy
SSL certificates
Deploys the containers defined in the Dockerfile
Simple git push for deploying to Dokku
"Is deploying actually hard? Depends"
Deploy
- Create the application and domain
- Deploy the application to Dokku
- Get everyone to look at it