[lfkdev]

What you are actually searching for is called ansible

[dewey]

That's pretty much the opposite of what I'm searching for. Getting a static site running with https on Dokku on a fresh server is done in under 2 minutes if you type quickly.

1) Run curl command to install Dokku

2) Set up domain to point to my server

3) Run 3 Dokku commands (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358578)

4) Add remote git url to my repository

5) Git push to that remote

6) Done

[lfkdev]

1) Install Ansible

2) Create a playbook which pulls from your GIT, sets the DNS and installs Caddy (or apache+certbot or whatever) (~5min)

3) Run Ansible

You now don't need docker, can change to any other cheaper hoster any time you want and you don't have the limitations of "serverless" services

[fredoliveira]

That reads like "draw a circle; draw the rest of the owl".

Look, I used Ansible for years. And chef. And puppet, so I've been around that particular block a bunch of times. There's no way you legitimately think that someone can, with no previous experience, create a playbook that does all you need in "~5min".

I ansible a good tool? Absolutely. Does it do what a tool like Dokku (or some of the others mentioned) do? Absolutely not. They aren't meant to compete, either.

[hk__2]

That’s orthogonal; you can use Ansible with Dokku.

[Sammi]

I downvoted because you didn't qualify your statement.