Dokku is an open source lightweight Platform as a Service (PaaS) implementation designed to run on a single host and be operable over ssh. It is inspired by and re-uses developments from the Heroku platform. Fundamentally, the basic idea is to git push your website to it and have it running online, retaining the benefits of git (easy rollback) and reducing the effort it takes to get a web application online.
The real dokku docs are not bad, but administrative side of things and user side of things is a bit intertwined likely making it difficult for someone who just wants to deploy their app to our dokku server.
These opinionated docs try to capture the main parts necessary for administration (server maintenance side of things) and users side (people deploying apps) respectively.
If you run into issues figuring out how to use dokku or there are gaps in these docs, do consider contributing to this user guide on github either by submitting an issue or by writing a pull request.
The gist of the changes you should be aware of if you're coming from dokku.maayanlab.cloud are detailed here:
- Access docs now require a additional config step, you'll need to review this to access the new server.
- Configuring a repo needs to use the new domain name. if you already have the
productionorigin set up, you can change it withgit remote set-url production dev.maayanlab.cloud:my-app - Finalizing deployments was simplified!
dokku letsencrypt:enablewas replaced withdokku traefik:enable. When setting up the proxy, only specifyhttp:80:your-container-port.