I stumbled across this post by Hamel Husain on Dokku and immediately wanted to spin up a server to try it. The pitch is simple but compelling: it's essentially Heroku, except you own the infrastructure. Hamel runs his entire deployment setup for LLM consulting work on a $7/month VPS, which is a stark contrast to what Heroku charges these days. What caught my attention is how full-featured it is despite the low cost — automatic SSL via Let's Encrypt, basic auth for password-protecting sites, Docker support, git-based deployments, and the ability to scale workers with a single command. The example of deploying private static sites is particularly useful, since GitHub Pages locks that behind an expensive Enterprise plan. I've been looking for something lightweight and self-hosted to replace a patchwork of deployment hacks, and Dokku looks like it might genuinely be that thing.
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This seems like a very nice simple tool to solve a common problem. My only confusion is that there are a bunch of similar tools to do the same thing. Each has its own DSL, written in ruby or some other language, has its own conceptual steucture, and its own bugs. It’s enough to make me decide to just keep doing it by hand. Heres what the author says: “ Prepper is a simple server provisioning tool, built on top of SSHKit. You can use it to script your server build process. - GitHub - gregmolnar/prepper: Prepper is a simple server provisioning tool...”
This looks pretty interesting. Sort of what I've been trying to home grow. "Coder is a self-hosted platform that allows organizations to securely provision developer workspaces (featuring remote IDEs and all related resources) for DevOps, platform, and software engineering teams."
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