Curious what people here are running in production these days. Are you mostly using Droplets + Docker, App Platform, or Kubernetes (DOKS)?
Would love to hear real setups like:
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app hosting
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database
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storage (Spaces?)
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CI/CD
Always interesting to see how others structure things.
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Hey!
For most projects I try to keep things simple and easy to operate.
A typical stack I use looks something like this:
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Droplets + Docker for the application
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Managed PostgreSQL for the database
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Spaces for object storage (uploads, assets, backups)
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Cloudflare for DNS and caching and CDN
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GitHub Actions for CI/CD deployments
That setup usually gets pretty far before needing anything more complex.
For projects where I want less infrastructure management, App Platform + Managed DB + Spaces is also a really nice combo.
Heya, @72478c7f91cd489888269193f6e30b
Really good question to discuss. I use the following:
Droplets + Docker Compose for most things here. It’s simple, easy to reason about, and gets the job done without the overhead of Kubernetes for my scale.
For databases I use DO Managed Databases, not the cheapest option but not having to deal with backups, failover and upgrades myself is worth it. Spaces for static assets and backups. CI/CD is Jenkins pushing to the Droplets, nothing fancy.
I’ve tried App Platform and it’s solid for simpler apps where you just want git push deploys, but for anything where you need more control over the environment Droplets + Docker is hard to beat.
Regards
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