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Indie DevOps - Deploying Your Applications (Part 3)

Dec 27, 20209 min read

Welcome to the next part of the "Indie DevOps" series. This post will show you how to set up and deploy your applications with a simple git push. We will be using Dokku (a self-hosted heroku), which supports deploying with a Dockerfile or any of the ...

Setting up Dokku on Digital Ocean

Nov 18, 20203 min read

Dokku is a self-hosted alternative to Heroku. It is incredibly stable, supports most of the deployment types that Heroku does, and it's fully open source! Additionally, DigitalOcean makes it super simple to get started with Dokku. Please note, this i...

Doppler: The Docker of Environment Variables

Nov 13, 20205 min read

We have been working on a few projects and the one tool that we always set up first is Doppler. Doppler makes it easy to load your environment variables seamlessly into any context, which means you don't need to redefine the same environment variable...

Using LetsEncrypt with Cloudflare

Nov 12, 20202 min read

Cloudflare and LetsEncrypt have helped make the web a significantly safer and more accessible place. However, they sometimes refuse to work well with each other. After some trial and error, we have come up with a way to use both together allowing you...

Indie DevOps - Storing Your Data (Part 2)

Nov 12, 20208 min read

Welcome to the next part of the "Indie DevOps" series. This post will show you how to set up a database, scale-up storage as you need it, and back up your databases to DigitalOcean Spaces (or S3). We will be using Dokku which supports the following d...

Indie DevOps - Introduction (Part 1)

Nov 11, 20203 min read

Welcome this multi-part series on how we deploy and scale our applications on a tight budget while remaining stable! This series will be broken up into multiple parts, describing how we host each and every part of our stack. We'll try to update this ...