Last July 4th weekend I took some time to redo the setup for sent-hil.com. Previously it was Jekyll app running on Github pages. For the amount of blogging I did and traffic it received, it was more than enough. However I wanted to convert sent-hil.com to be a hub for different apps. My first attempt was to use AWS ECS to deploy dockers containers, but after couple days of struggling I gave up. I tried GCP, which was more fruitful, but ultimately I ran into some technical issues.
At that point I gave up wth a hosted solution and started looking around for a DIY solution and ultimately found dokku. It took couple hours to figure it out and this is the result of it
The repo contains the following folders:
To deploy I do git push dokku master.
This setup is horizontally challenged. dokku has some support for K8/Nomad, but it seems experiemental and I couldn’t find documentation to get started. This setup will last me for a long time. Worst case I will vertically scale the instance.
Overrall I’m pretty happy with the setup. It’s fairly easy to manage, cheap and I can always ssh into the instance to debug. That’s something I sorely missed when trying to work with the hosted solutions.