Advantages of the solution 🕵️♂️
- A clean and tidy server, with nothing installed on but Docker and Docker Compose
- A single server for all your domains and applications, thanks to the Traefik reverse proxy and its Docker integration
- HTTPS thanks to the free TLS certificates provided by Let’s Encrypt
- Private resources protection with Google’s OAuth2
- Everything automated
What you need 🧰
- A server: even a small VPS is fine. If you don’t have one yet, Contabo has very cheap ones (no, it’s not a referral link, I just enjoy their products).
- A domain: you need at least a domain for the OAuth service, but you will need one more…
TL; DR
Stackbit is fine if you want a modern and static blog, in less than 1 hour, without web programming knowledge. It’s something like WordPress, but better, newer and a bit less advanced.
But if, as for me, you know how to build a website and you are looking for something you really own, with a minimal, ordered your way repository, without a flood of commits all with the same message that means nothing to you, in that case you probably are not looking for this solution.
How I got here
So, in August 2019 I decided to open a blog.
So, I decided to…
I show you my VPS setup with Docker, Traefik, the Portainer UI, and watchtower to keep images up-to-date. This helped me and my friends in keeping the VPS tidy and functional.
TL;DR
- Do not install anything but Docker on the server
- Use Docker to run applications
- Use docker-compose to keep application separated in stacks
- Use Traefik 1.7 as a reverse https proxy
- Use Portainer as web UI for Docker
- Keep images in running containers up-to-date with watchtower
- Use some bash aliases to speed up your common operations
How to do that? Just read titles and copy code.
