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josegonzalez | 6 months ago

This is great. Dokku (of which I am the maintainer) has a hokey solution for this with our letsencrypt plugin, but thats caused a slew of random issues for users. Nginx sometimes gets "stuck" reloading and then can't find the endpoint for some reason. The fewer moving knobs, the better.

That said, its going to take quite some time for this to land in stable repositories for Ubuntu and Debian, and it doesn't (yet?) have DNS challenge support - meaning no wildcards - so I don't think it'll be useful for Dokku in the short-term at least.

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ctxc|6 months ago

Hey! Great to see you here.

I tried dokku (and still am!) and it is so hard getting started.

For reference, - I've used Coolify successfully where it required me to create a Github app to deploy my apps on pushes to master - I've written GH actions to build and deploy containers to big cloud

This page is what I get if I want to achieve the same, and it's completely a reference book approach - I feel like I'm reading an encyclopedia. https://dokku.com/docs/deployment/methods/git/#initializing-...

Contrast it with this, which is INSTANTLY useful and helps me deploy apps hot off the page: https://coolify.io/docs/knowledge-base/git/github/integratio...

What I would love to see for Dokku is tutorials for popular OSS apps and set-objective/get-it-done style getting started articles. I'd LOVE an article that takes me from baremetal to a reverse proxy+a few popular apps. Because the value isn't in using Dokku, it's in using Dokku to get to that state.

I'm trying to use dokku for my homeserver.

Ideally I want a painless, quick way to go from "hey here's a repo I like" to "deployed on my machine" with Dokku. And then once that works, peek under the hood.