[tonyarkles]

I'm not the OP, but...

Here's the scene: Most of the web projects I work on will never have a billion users. They might have 5, or 10. One or two have thousands. Several of them have 1 (me).

Docker-compose works for me. I set up a container for my backend, a container for whatever's serving the static resources for the frontend, and a container for whatever databases are needed (Postgres, Redis, whatever). The databases get a filesystem volume mount that I can snapshot off the disk with a nightly cron job.

I have a script that will transform a brand shiny new $5/mo DigitalOcean Ubuntu image into a machine with nginx+LetsEncrypt for SSL termination, and with Docker and docker-compose installed (and the Docker port firewalled off, natch). From there, I run "docker-compose up -d" and my project fires up and goes. Maybe I have to edit a line or two in the nginx.conf that my script put in place.

To deploy, I do a local build on my laptop (or Jenkins for a few projects where it makes sense) via a script that pushes the built containers to Docker Hub, and runs docker-compose pull on the host.

This has served me beautifully.

I've looked at Kube more than once. It looks cool for things dramatically bigger than what I'm working on. For something that isn't massive scale, it's bloody complicated. If one of these projects ever gets to the point where a $40/mo DigitalOcean box can't handle the load, I'll probably look at it again. Until then, though, it feels like a very expensive (time-wise) premature optimization.

[radarsat1]

I like the sound of how you have that set up, do you know any good open source repositories that are designed the way you describe that I could look at for learning purposes?

(I mean, projects that set up containers for backend, database, and front-end servers and push them to digitalocean etc.. I can imagine how each piece works, but I'd love to see how a coherent and manageable project in that style is organized as a whole.)

[tonyarkles]

Hmmmm... I can't say I've ever looked a whole lot. Based on the replies in this thread though, I should probably just take the scripts I've got, make sure there's nothing sensitive in there, and throw them up on Github. Maybe I'll strip my SSH pubkey out of the too, so that we don't end up with a bunch of servers that I can log into :D

[radarsat1]

That would be cool! (And that's a yes for stripping your SSH key ;)

[tonyarkles]

As a tangent... super curious about your username. I've been in the local Radarsat ground terminal and worked on some barely-related projects...

[radarsat1]

Haha awesome not often people comment on it.. a previous employer did some work on Radarsat-1 so the name was floating around in my circles a couple of decades ago when I was starting to make music and post on forums, I just started using it without much thought and it stuck

[w-ll]

Seconded, I work on a lot of little toy projects, and host them all on a super cheap vps. Only thing i'd mainly say is different is I have a docker-compose project consisting of jwilder/nginx-proxy, a bind server, and a log processing server. Each project I have to add the virtual network of that composes. But then its all handled.

[unicornfinder]

Out of curiosity, have you ever used Traefik? At work we're using Docker Swarm (because we needed more power than a single server could give us but Kubernetes seemed excessive) with Traefik and it works beautifully.

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