Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers

Post by ku1ik » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 6:09 PM UTC

myaccountonhn wrote: post #104

yard2010 wrote: post #95

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Question - how can dependency hell be solved when using such a tool? It seems so elegant and I love the "it just works" attitude, and I do understand that docker can't be used everywhere due to its technical (and mental) overhead, but I love it because it allows to isolate everything, freeze everything in time so running a container 5 years for now "just works". In my humble workflow, I'm using lazydocker to manage t…

Personally I use the same approach to piku, but instead rebuild my Nixos config on push. My projects use nix flakes, so I get both something that I know will run on my server and on my local machine with the full development environment. No containers needed technically, but I use systemd nspawn to run the software in its own sandboxed namespace. My entire server is then managed declaratively, so if I want to add a n…

Post by mati365 » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 6:11 PM UTC

nico wrote: post #109

Can it be a good replacement for Capistrano (for deploying rails applications)? Love the focus on being lightweight Recently I wanted to create a super basic website, and discovered it’s actually pretty hard to create something simple And then, even if you manage to create something actually simple, you usually end up having to manage some not so simple deployment process together with hopefully some sort of version…

Post by myaccountonhn » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 6:35 PM UTC

ku1ik wrote: post #121

myaccountonhn wrote: post #104

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Personally I use the same approach to piku, but instead rebuild my Nixos config on push. My projects use nix flakes, so I get both something that I know will run on my server and on my local machine with the full development environment. No containers needed technically, but I use systemd nspawn to run the software in its own sandboxed namespace. My entire server is then managed declaratively, so if I want to add a n…

This sounds super interesting! Do you have an example of such a config somewhere, that you can share?

Post by zie » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 7:45 PM UTC

mlhpdx wrote: post #89

rcarmo wrote: post #78

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To be honest, Python made it stupendously simpler than anything else because it has a great standard library. The only dependency (click) is rock solid and made it a lot simpler to handle commands independently, but we could probably do without it and just use the built-in argparse—-but at the expense of a few more lines of code I didn’t want to maintain. Also, Python is everywhere, on every OS and Linux system, so i…

That’s pretty funny. You may want to look a little further field to discover that the machines with Python are far from “all the machines” out there. Particularly production servers, which, if they run responsibly, are hardened with every extraneous bit of software removed.

Post by sureglymop » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 7:51 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #4

This looks good, and Dokku has been very solid for me, but removing the Docker dependency means that now I'm beholden to my OS's choices. For apps that might run for years without maintenance, that's not ideal, as you'll quickly find you need a specific version of the OS for them.