Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS

by mightymoud • 2 years ago

452 152 2 years ago

Hexigonz• 2 years ago

Ohhhh I like this. I really enjoy the flyctl CLI tools from Fly.io, which simplifies in a similar manner, but it's platform specific. Good work

silasb• 2 years ago

Nice, I'm working in the same space as you (not opensource, personal project). We landed on the same solution, encoding the commands inside Golang and distributing those via SSH.

I'm somewhat surprised not to see this more often. I'm guessing supporting multiple linux versions could get unwieldy, I focused on Ubuntu as my target.

Differences that I see.

* I modeled mine on-top of docker-plugins (these get installed during the bootstrapping process)

* I built a custom plugin for deploying which leveraged https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout for zero-downtime deployments

Your solution looks much simpler than mine. I started off modeling mine off fly.io CLI, which is much more verbose Go code. I'll likely continue to use mine, but for any future VPS I'll have to give this a try.

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

hahah seems like we went down the same rabbit hole. I also considered `docker-rollout` but decided to write my own script. Heavily inspired by the docker-rollout source code btw. Just curious, why did you decide to go with docker plugins?

jjkmk• 2 years ago

Looks really good, going to test it out.

superkuh2• 2 years ago

I don't know about you but I find the single command $ sudo apt install $x to be much faster, offers wider range of software, more reliable, less fragile, easier to network, and more secure when it comes to running applications on an Ubuntu VPS. The only thing the normal way of running applications is less good at (compared to this dependency manager manager) is "Zero downtime".

LVB2• 2 years ago

I’m not sure what you’re comparing that to. This project is about easily deploying your own app/side-project, which wouldn’t be available via apt.

superkuh2• 2 years ago

99% of what people run in docker is just normal applications.

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

I think this is just miscommunication - I meant more in a side-project/application that you made yourself. Not an application package you install on ubuntu

pqdbr• 2 years ago

This looks really nice, congrats!

1) I see Kamal was an inspiration; care to explain what differs from it? I'm still rocking custom Ansible playbooks, but I was planning on checking out Kamal after version 2 is released soon (I think alongside Rails 8).

2) I see databases are in your roadmap, and that's great.

One feature that IMHO would be game changer for tools like this (and are lacking even in paid services like Hatchbox.io, which is overall great) is streaming replication of databases.

Even for side projects, a periodic SQL dump stored in S3 is generally not enough nowadays, and any project that gains traction will need to implement some sort of streaming backup, like Litestream (for SQLite) or Barman with streaming backup (for Postgres).

If I may suggest this feature, having this tool to provision a Barman server in a different VPS, and automate the process of having Postgres stream to it would be game changer.

One barman server can actually accommodate multiple database backups, so N projects could do streaming backup to one single barman server.

Of course, there would need to be a way to monitor if the streaming is working correctly, and maybe even help the user with the restoration process. But that effectively brings RTO down to near 0 (so no data loss) and can even allow point in time restoration.

indigodaddy5• 2 years ago

Pretty sure that fly.io for example supports litestream as I remember seeing some fly doc related to litestream when I was looking a few days ago for my own project. Would also make sense that they do given Litestream’s creator is currently Fly’s VP of Product (I believe).

ctvo• 2 years ago

Yes, fly.io is associated with Litestream, but... how is that related to the above thread or this tool?

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

1) Kamal is more geared towards having one VPS for project - it' made for big projects really. They also show on the demo that even the db is hosted on its own VPS. Which is great! But not for me or Sidekick target audience. Kamal V2 will support multi-projects on a single VPS afaik

2) yes yes yes! I really like litestream. Also backup is one of those critical but annoying thing that Sidekick is meant to take care of for you. I'll look into Bearman. My vision is like we would have one command for most popular db types and it would use stubs to configure everything the right way. Need to sort out docker-compose support first though...

LVB2• 2 years ago

This looks good, and I’m a target user in this space.

One thing I’ve noticed is the prevalence of Docker for this type of tool, or the larger self-managed PaaS tools. I totally get it, and it makes sense. I’m just slow to adapt. I’ve been so used to Go binary deployments for so long. But I also don’t really like tweaking Caddyfiles and futzing with systemd unit files, even though the pattern is familiar to me now. Been waffling on this for quite a while…

kokanee2• 2 years ago

I'm a waffler on this as well, increasingly leaning away from containers lately. I can recall one time in my pre-Docker career when I was affected by a bug related to the fact that software developed on Mac OS ran differently than software running on CentOS in production. But I have spent untold countless hours trying to figure out various Docker-related quirks.

If you legitimately need to run your software on multiple OSes in production, by all means, containerize it. But in 15 years I have never had a need to do that. I have a rock solid bash script that deploys and daemonizes an executable on a linux box, takes like 2 seconds to run, and saves me hours and hours of Dockery.

bantunes• 2 years ago

I don't understand how running a single command to start either a single container or a stack of them with compose, that then gets all the requirements in a tarball similar and just runs is seen as more complicated than running random binaries, setting values on php.ini, setting up mysql or postgres, demonizing said binaries and making sure libraries and the like are in order.

codiogo• 2 years ago

I did the same, created a thing that is supposed to be a collection of scripts to set up a vps without any container. You can check it out at https://github.com/diogocasado/coderaft

mikkelam• 2 years ago

There are tools like firecracker that significantly reduces docker overhead https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

I believe fly.io uses that. Not sure if OP’s tool does that

indigodaddy5• 2 years ago

Was wondering the same— didn’t see any mention of it in the GH page though, nor even in roadmap

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

No Sidekick doesn't use firecracker. I know fly.io is built around it yes. They do that so they can put your app to sleep - basically shutting it down - then spin it up real quick when it gets a request. No place for this in Sidekick vision

faangguyindia2• 2 years ago

Here's the thing, we've code running on VPS in cloud for a decade with any problem

When we ran it on kubernets, without touching it, it broke itself in 3 years.

Docker is fantastic developement tool, I do see real value in it.

But kubernets and whole ecosystem? You must apply updates or your stuff will break one day.

Currently I am using docker with docker compose and GCR, it does make things very simply and easy to develop and it's also self documenting.

prmoustache4• 2 years ago

Kubernetes doesn't break on itself. This is totally untrue. The only thing that is a timebomb are the ssl certificates it is using but they can easily be checked and renewed.

4star3star• 2 years ago

I like what I'm seeing, though I'm not sure I have a use case. On a VPS, I'll typically run a cloudflared container and configure a Cloudflare tunnel to that VPS. Then, I can expose any port and point it to a subdomain I configure in the CF dashboard. This gives https for free. I can expose services in containers or anything else running on the VPS.

I'll concede there's probably a little more hands on work doing things this way, but I do like having a good grip on how things are working rather than leaning on a convenient tool. Maybe you could convince me Sidekick has more advantages?

skinner927• 2 years ago

I must be an old simpleton, but why get cloudflare involved? You can get https for free with nginx and letsencrypt.

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

It's a tunnel. So VPS can only be reached through cloudflare. It's not only for https, but more for security and lockdown

worik2• 2 years ago

You can get https for free with... [any webserver] and letsencrypt.

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

Interesting setup....

How do you run the containers on your VPS tho? You could still use Sidekick for that!

I think your setup is one step up in security from Sidekick nonetheless. A lot more work it seems too

tacone• 2 years ago

Interesting! How do you connect via ssh? Do you just leave the port open or is there any trick you'd like to share?

hu3• 2 years ago

Nice setup.

But isn't this a little too tied to Cloudflare?

Caddy as a reverse proxy on that VPS would also give us free HTTPS. The downside is less security because no CF tunneling.

aborsy• 2 years ago

You could put Authentik in front. It does Cloudflare stuff on VPS.

eikenberry• 2 years ago

Are there other services that provide the similar offering as Cloudflare that could be switched to in case they changed policy (eg. removed the free teir)? I.E. is there any mitigation to Cloudflare lock-in?

vineyardmike• 2 years ago

I do this for “internal” apps but with Tailscale.

SahAssar• 2 years ago

Are you also making sure that nothing on the VPS is actually listening on outside ports? A classic mistake is to setup something similar to what you are describing but not validating that the services are not listening on 0.0.0.0.

I'd also not want to have cloudflare as an extra company to trust, point of failure and configuration to manage.

renewiltord2• 2 years ago

This is pretty cool. I did not know I could do this. Currently, I have:

1. nginx + letsencrypt

2. forward based on host + path to the appropriate local docker

3. run each thing in the docker container

4. put Cloudflare in front in proxy DNS mode and with caching enabled

Your thing is obviously better! Thank you.

jmpavlec• 2 years ago

I used to run it the cloudflared way as the other user described but the tunnel often went offline without explanation for short periods of time and the latency was so so in my testing. I run it more similar to you now and haven't had any stability problems since dropping the cloudflared setup. I use cloudflared for a less critical app on my own hardware and that also goes up and down from time to time.

bluehatbrit5• 2 years ago

This is super nice, and I'm a big fan of the detailed readme with screenshots.

I'll definitely be trying it out, although I do have a pretty nice setup now which will be hard to pull away from. It's ansible driven, lets me dump a compose file in a directory, along with a backup and restore shell script, and deploys it out to my server (hetzner dedicated via server auction).

It's really nice that this handles TLS/SSL, that was a real pain for me as I've been using nginx and automating cerbot wasn't the most fun in the world. This looks a lot easier on that front!

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

Sounds like you have a great setup. My vision is to make a setup like yours more accessible really w/o having to play with low level config like ansible. I think you should try to replace nginx with Traefik - it handles certs out of the box!

bluehatbrit5• 2 years ago

Mine is dead simple. I just have a repo with all my ansible in it, and have a nested module called "service". It takes in an app name, domain name, backup schedule, and a true/false on whether it should get a public nginx setup.

Then it finds the compose file based on the app name. It templates in the domain name wherever needed in the compose file, and if it's meant to be public it'll setup a nginx config (which runs on the host, not in docker). If the folder with the compose file has a backup.sh and restore.sh it also copies those over, and sets up a cron for the backup schedule. It's less than 70 lines of yaml, plus some more for restart handlers.

The only bit that irks me is the initial tls/ssl setup. Certbot changes the nginx config to insert the various certificates, which then makes my original nginx config out of date. I really like nginx and have used it for a long time so feel comfortable with it, but I've been considering traefik and caddy for a while just to get around this.

Although another option for me is to use a cloudflare tunnel instead, and then ignoring certificate management altogether. This is really attractive because it also means I can close some ports. I'll have to find some time to play around with traefik and caddy first though!

devmor2• 2 years ago

Wow this is super handy! I have paid tools that function like this for a couple of specific stacks but this seems like an amazing general purpose tool.

Considering the ease of setup the README purports, a few hours of dealing with this might save me a couple hundred bucks a month in service fees.

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

Glad you found this useful. Let me know if you have specific features in mind.

devmor2• 2 years ago

I didn't see anything in the readme about deploy hooks - do you have a feature that lets users run arbitrary commands after the image is deployed? I have common use cases for both pre (ex. database migrations) and post (ex. Resource caching, worker spinup) traffic switchover.

achempion2• 2 years ago

This looks amazing, congrats on the release! Really looking forward for the database hosting feature as well (and probably networking and mounting data dirs).

As a side note, any reason why you decided against using docker in swarm mode as it should have all these features already built it?

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, Docker Swarm mode is made to manage multi node clusters. This is meant for only one single VPS.

achempion2• 2 years ago

You can use docker swarm just for single VPS.

  - install docker 
  - run docker swarm init
  - create yaml that describes your stack (similar to docker-compose)
  - run docker stack deploy

That's basically it. My go-to solution when I need to run some service on single VPS.

If you want to just run a single container, you can also do this with `docker service create image:tag`

evantbyrne• 2 years ago

Swarm ships with Docker only requiring initialization and disabling access to the management ports. It is the appropriate alternative to more complex orchestration tools as it gives you things like zero downtime deployments, rollbacks, volume management, secrets, networking, logging, and can scale services across multiple machines if needed later. Check out what I did with Rove for setup as that is basically a wrapper around Swarm.

rafaelgoncalves• 2 years ago

This really looks nice! Congrats!

Sn0wCoder2• 2 years ago

This looks great. Just bookmarked and then had to double check that I did not just bookmark it a few weeks ago. Turns out I had bookmarked Caddy which is similar but does not deploy the app and don’t think supports Docker. It was the auto CERT that was what I was interested in and what had stuck out in my mind. Have certbot setup and never think about it again, until my server needed to be rebuilt, and I started researching. Good to go for a few months, but my hosting will be up here in a year and going to switch providers and upgrade my setup to 2+ gig so I can run docker reliably. Thanks for posting this one just moved to the top of the list.

indigodaddy5• 2 years ago

In what sense would Caddy not support Docker? You can use caddy on the host itself to proxy to a docker container, and you could also have Caddy as a Docker container to proxy to other Docker containers (would just need an initial incoming iptables rule to the caddy container for the latter scenario— although caddy might have instructions somewhere on a more elegant way than iptables to get the connections to the Docker caddy container not sure)

Sn0wCoder2• 2 years ago

Hey indigo,

Thank you for pointing this out. When I was looking to install caddy, I was specifically looking for something without using docker since my VPS is 1g / 1cpu and that is what I based my comment off. When was reading the sidekick docs seemed by running one command that it would first install sidekick and then install the cert/app all with one docker file but now I am not even sure about that.

Appreciate you pointing that out, now I am back into analysis paralysis on which one I should use

dvaun• 2 years ago

Awesome! Love that it's written in Go—I've recently tested the language for some use cases at work and find it great. I'll dive into your repo to see if I can learn anything new :)

spelunker• 2 years ago

Looks great! I similarly got frustrated about the complexity of doing side-project ops stuff and messed around with Kamal, but this goes the extra mile by automatically setting up TLS as well. I'll give it a try!

Canada• 2 years ago

Very well presented, the README.md looks great.

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

Thanks! This comment really makes my day!

AndrewCopeland• 2 years ago

Its a simple cli in go It uses docker There is no k8s Handles certs Zero down time

I would love for it to support docker-compose as some of my side projects needs a library in python but I like having my service be in go, so I will wrap the python library in a super simple service.

Overall this is awesome and I love the simplicity, with the world just full of serverless, AI and a bunch of other "stuff". Paralysis through analysis is really an issue and when you are just trying to create a service for yourself or an MVP, it can be a real hinderance.

I have been gravitating towards Taskfile to perform similar tasks to this. God speed to you and keep up the great work.

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

Thanks man! I'm working on the docker-compose support. I got it working locally, but the ergonomics are really hard to get right, cus compose files are so flexible. I was even considering using the `sidekick.yaml` file as the main config and then turn that into docker compose - similar to what fly.io does with fly.toml. But I wanna keep this docker centric... so yeah I am still doing more thinking around this

replwoacause• 2 years ago

Can’t wait to try this out..!

aag• 2 years ago

This could be great for my projects, but I'm confused about one thing: why does it need to push to a Docker registry? The Dockerfile is local, and each image is built locally. Can't the images be stored purely locally? Perhaps I'm missing something obvious. Not using a registry would reduce the number of moving parts.

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

Locally here means the locally on your laptop locally, not locally on your VPS. Contrary to popular opinion, I believe your source code shouldn't be on your prod machine - a docker image is all you need. Lots of other projects push your code to VPS to build the image there then use it. I see no point in doing that...

sdf4j• 2 years ago

The docker registry can be avoided by exporting/importing the docker image over ssh.

3np2• 2 years ago

You can easily set up a Docker/CNCF registry[0] container running locally. It can be run either as a caching pull-through mirror for a public registry (allowing you to easily run public containers in an environment without internet access) or as a private registry for your own image (this use-case). So if you want both features, you currently need two instances. Securing it for public use is a bit less trivial but for local use it's literally a 'run' or two.

So you can do 'docker build -t localhost/whatever' and then 'docker run localhost/whatever'. Also worth checking out podman to more easily run everything rootless.

If all you need is to move images between hosts like you would files, you don't even need a registry (docker save/load).

[0] https://distribution.github.io/distribution/

joseferben• 2 years ago

this looks amazing!

i’m building https://www.plainweb.dev and i’m looking for the simplest way to deploy a plainweb/plainstack project.

looks like sidekick has the same spirit when it comes to simplicity.

in the plainstack docs i’ve been embracing fly.io, but reliability is an issue. and sqlite web apps (which is the core of plainstack) can’t have real zero downtime deployments, unless you count the proxy holding the pending request for 30 seconds while the fly machine is deployed.

i tried kamal but it felt like non-ruby and non-rails projects are second class citizens.

i was about to document deploying plainstack to dokku, but provisioning isn’t built-in.

my dream deployment tool would be dokku + provisioning & setup, sidekick looks very close to that.

definitely going to try this and maybe even have it in the blessed deploy path for plainstack if it works well!

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

Planweb looks really promising. Keen to get in touch and see how I can help support the vision of Plainweb with Sidekick then you can reference it in the docs.

I'll reach out on twitter

johnklos2• 2 years ago

"to self-host any app"

Docker != app. Perhaps it'd be more accurate to say, "to host any Docker container"?

prmoustache4• 2 years ago

I am not saying docker is the best way to run any app, but could you share a kind of app can't you host in a docker?

I mean on rootless containers, yes, a lot of apps that need access to the underlying system might not work, but they are usually system stuff, not the kind you want to host on a VPS anyway. But when running as root I can't think of many.

johnklos2• 2 years ago

There are many, many things that can't be hosted in Docker. For instance, literally everything that I run on many of my servers can't, because Docker only supports certain platforms and architectures. Things that we want to run on systems with modest amounts of CPU and memory can't be run via Docker for obvious reasons. Stuff that needs hardware access can't. Stuff that needs finer resolution of permissions can, but there's a lot more work that needs to be done.

But even ignoring those, if I'm going to spend all the time needed to containerize everything in to Docker images myself, why wouldn't I just run the programs directly and not deal with the overhead and extra work?

InvOfSmallC• 2 years ago

Can I run more than one app on the same VPS with this solution?

I now run more than one app into one single VPS.

sigmonsays• 2 years ago

tools like this are pretty sweet but I would rather just run it myself.

docker-compose with a load balancer (traefik) is fairly straightforward and awesome. the TLS setup is nice but I wildcard that and just run certgen myself.

The main thing I think that's missing is some sort of authentication or zero trust system, maybe vpn tunnel provisioner. Most services I self host I do not want to be made public due to security concerns.

funshed• 2 years ago

Nice, you should probably explain what traefik, sops and age will do. First time I've heard of sops, very handy!

tegiddrone• 2 years ago

Looks nice! Something I'd want in front is some sort of basic app firewall like fail2ban or CrowdSec to ban vuln scanners and other intrusion attempts. It is a nice thing about Cloudflare since they provide some of this protection.

turtlebits• 2 years ago

What about this is highly available? On a single VPS?

Does this only support a single app?

Nice project but the claims (production ready? Load balance on a single server?) are a bit ridiculous.

dewey8• 2 years ago

Highly available is overrated for most use cases, especially for any side projects.

closewith• 2 years ago

In my experience, single apps on VPSes have far higher availability in practice than the majority of convoluted deployments.

dewey8• 2 years ago

I'd also suggest people to take a look at Dokku, it's a very mature project with a similar scope and was discussed here a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358020

I wrote up my own experiences too (https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/selfhosting-with-dokku-and...) and I can only recommend it. It is ~3 commands to set up an app, and one push to deploy after that.

rgrieselhuber• 2 years ago

I've kept a list of these tools that I've been meaning to check out. In scope, do they cover securing the instance? Is there any automation for creating networks of instances?

dewey8• 2 years ago

In scope, do they cover securing the instance?

Most of these I checked don't, but a recent Ubuntu version is perfectly fine to use as-is.

Is there any automation for creating networks of instances?

Not that I'm aware, it would also defeat the purpose of these tools a bit that are supposed to be simple. (Dokku is "just" a shell script).

mimischi• 2 years ago

Been using dokku for probably 8 years now? (or something close to that; it used to be written entirely in bash!) Hosting private stuff on it, and an application at $oldplace probably also still runs on this solid setup. Highly recommended, and the devs are a great sport!

FloatArtifact4• 2 years ago

Part of me dies every time I see projects not integrating robust restoring and backup systems.

Aeolun2• 2 years ago

None of my hobby projects across 15 years or so have ever needed backups or restoring. I can agree it would be nice to have, but it’s a far cry from necessary.

dewey8• 2 years ago

Providing robust restoring and backup systems for a system that allows to run any kind of workload is almost impossible. You'd have to provide database backups for all versions of all databases, correct file backup for the volumes etc.

It feels much more dangerous to have such a system instead in place and provide false sense of security. Users know best what kind of data they need to backup, where they want to back it up, if it needs to be encrypted or not, if it needs to be daily or weekly etc.

trog• 2 years ago

My VPS provider just lets me take image snapshots of the whole machine so I can roll back to a point in time. It's a little slower and less flexible than application or component level but overall I don't even think about backup and restore now because I know it's handled there.

prmoustache4• 2 years ago

FWIW, backup can be ran from a separate docker container mounting same volume as main app and connecting to the db if any so it is not like backup can't be taken care of. That's it how it is often done in the kubernetes world.

oulipo• 2 years ago

What would be the best between Dokku / Dokploy / Coolify?

dewey8• 2 years ago

Depends on what you prefer. I went with Dokku as for me it was important that I could run docker-compose based apps along side with my "Dokku managed" apps. I didn't want to convert my existing apps (Sonarr, Radarr etc.) into Dokku apps and only use Dokku for my web projects.

I also wanted to be able to remove Dokku if needed and everything would continue to run as before. Both of these work very well with Dokku.

Aeolun2• 2 years ago

I tried many, but eventually kept running on Portainer.

Best part is that I can just dump whole docker-compose.yml files in and it just works.

vickodin2• 2 years ago

Also: Kamal, CapRover

nhatcher• 2 years ago

This looks fantastic TBH! Can't wait to give it a go. Congratulations. I've long thought something like this should be possible. The only thing I've done is document carefully my own steps:

https://www.nhatcher.com/post/a-cto-on-a-shoestring/

gf297• 2 years ago

What's the purpose of encrypting the env file with sops, when the age secret key is stored on the VPS? If someone has access to the encrypted env file, they will also have access to the secret key, and can decrypt it.

nsluss• 2 years ago

only if they can login as the owner of the key. Most of my team can get on our vps, only a couple could get our age key.

trey-jones• 2 years ago

"Wow, this really looks significantly better than my own CLI tools"

I'm going to have to look into this pterm thing.

hkon• 2 years ago

Have used caprover. Good that more tools enter this space.

singhrac• 2 years ago

Any possibility you’d add support for a Mac Mini deployment? I think the extra complexity would be from changing the Docker images, but of course the devil is in the details. I just have a Mac Mini and it would be great to self-host some stuff.

brirec• 2 years ago

As someone who used to love hosting things on a Mac mini, have you tried installing Linux on it to use as a dedicated server? If you do, it should handle this just like any other platform you could install it on.

Humphrey• 2 years ago

Love this! That said, I achieve the same thing manually using Docker Compose & some shell scripts. It takes a bike longer, but it has forced me to learn the lower level tools that helpers like Sidekick use.

Also, all of these tools have great documentation on getting up and running, but SIGNIFICANTLY LESS INFO ON HOW TO MAINTAIN OVER THE LONG TERM. If I was going to start using a tool like Sidekick, Kamal, or Dokku I would want clear answers to the following:

- How do I keep my VPS host up and running with latest security updates? - How do I update to more recent versions of Docker? - How do I update services that maintain state (eg. update to a new Postgres version) - How do I seamlessly migrate to a new host (perhaps as a way to solve the above)? - How should I manage and serve static resources & user media? (store on host or use cloud storage?) - How do I manage database migrations during an update, and how do I control that process to avoid downtime during an update?

I just spent an entire evening transferring a side project to a new VPS because I needed to update Postgres. The ideal self-hosting solution would make that a 20 min task.

jfdi• 2 years ago

These are great. Having tooling to get stuff out fast and as safely as possible to get to iterating openly.

Here’s a bash script I posted a while back on a different thread that does similar thing if of interest for anyone. It’s probably less nice than op’s for ex it only works with digitalocean (which is great!) - but it’s simple small and mostly readable. also assumes docker - but all via compose, with some samples like nginx w auto-ssl via le.

https://github.com/thomaswilley/tide.sh

mattfrommars• 2 years ago

I consider myself bit techsavy knowing Linux and basic scripting.

But does anyone have a resource or link that explains the idea to make a service which OP shared here?

Because frankly, I'd feel lost reading the code from one file at a time without knowing where to start.

Plus it's written in Go which I have I am not familiar with.

mightymoud16• 2 years ago

I wrote a intro guide to pterm and cobra-cli here https://mightytuts.com/blog/golang-cli-introduction-with-cob... I also have a video on YT if that is your thing

interstice• 2 years ago

Really like this! Funnily enough I was just rabbit holing into terraform + ansible in an effort to do essentially this but with an anycast network. The thinking was to mirror apps across locations with a single deploy. I don't suppose you're plannning something similar with this one?

apitman• 2 years ago

Anycast is a really underrated feature and I'm surprised no major VPS providers offer it. It's one of my favorite things about fly.io

vander_elst• 2 years ago

How does it compare to ansible? I didn't immediately find a link

vickodin2• 2 years ago

Very interesting. The similarity to the sidekiq is a bit confusing, but it doesn't really matter.

strzibny• 2 years ago

Given the choice of Docker and Traefik I would love to know what's the exact difference to Kamal? And btw Kamal will soon have a new improved version with a custom proxy.

udev4096• 2 years ago

I made something similar sometime ago (without using docker): http://github.com/thebigbone/deploypot

pmarreck2• 2 years ago

I would love this, but with Nix.

worik2• 2 years ago

Nice work.

I wonder, though. Why Ubuntu? Why not Debian?

With all due respect to Cannonical, Ubuntu is not really suitable. It is not aimed at developers

Unless it has changed since I left it in a fury, it takes too much control away from you with the Snap system.

mutant• 2 years ago

I just tried this out on DO and Linode. Worked great!

Very cool stack.

lenkite• 2 years ago

Gorgeous tool! Thanks for making this.

MarvinJWendt• 2 years ago

Author of PTerm here, nice work! Let me know if you ever need help or have feedback about PTerm :)

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