Hi all,
While I can’t say I recommend this as a first step into cloud hosting (Heroku is way better for that), I have worked my way through an IaaS deployment strategy which I believe is relatively user-friendly.
(Emphasis on relatively. If you’re not otherwise interested in learning about Docker containers, reverse proxies, or SSL certificates, this will be… a headache!)
For those who are interested, the relevant places to check out are:
- apps.cstern.io/index (an example end result)
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https://github.com/cisaacstern/apps.cstern.io (the associated repo, which does not yet have README
) - https://github.com/cisaacstern/nginx-wrapper/blob/main/README.md (a README outlining a very similar deployment, which should give some key hints)
- cstern.io/projects/apps.cstern.io (a brief post touching on some of the design considerations)
What this approach does not include is CI/CD, and I’d be happy for any suggestions at to the best way to incorporate that. That being said, as a single maintainer, ssh’ing into the cloud server to git pull changes is relatively low-stress.
Certainly welcome any and all critiques and follow-up questions. Hope these resources may be of use to others.
Best,
Charles