Where do you choose to keep your data, managed DB or a DIY solution?

[Exadra37]

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Right now, I can’t quite tell how is Pulumi different from Dokku. I’ve seen Pulumi compared to the likes of Terraform which I think would be a bit of an overkill for me if all I need is a single VM

I just deploy Postgres and my app with docker behind Traefik loadbalancer for docker containers as I mentioned to you in this thread:

Cost effective and robust options for deployment

I would start with Digiatl Ocean or Linode, and use Traefik as the load balancer for your docker deployments, thus allowing you to rotate containers with new versions of your code, while at same time it takes care of creating and renew LetsEncrypt certificates automatically for you. At work I have wrote a Debian Traefik Setup guide to help our potential clients to run our demos in online servers, thus you can use it as a base to create a production ready stack: I also wrote guide to run Tra…

I deploy with a small bash script from my computer.

I build the VM in digital ocean with an init script, therefore when it comes online its already secured, as I mention here:

Choosing host for 1k concurrent users

During the time you setup manually a server you can be breached, and this is not theoretically, it happens, thus you must always use the automated mechanisms that your hosting provider gives you to configure the server upon creation, like the cloud-init file. The server firewall should be all locked by default and you just open the ports strictly necessary to operate: [Screenshot from 2021-03-02 09-52-35] This is key, @Exadra37 advice should not be taken as a list of must do or as some ann…