Hosting Rails apps for free on Oracle Cloud with Dokku | Featurist

05/05/2022
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We all know and love “git push” deploys popularized by Heroku some eons ego. Heroku also got us spoiled with a great CLI. But hosting on Heroku (or similar services) costs money. Which is fine for serious stuff, but sometimes you just want to host a side project where the only acceptable price is zero.In this post we’ll setup a self-hosted Heroku like expirience on a free1 cloud vm. Using a Heroku like CLI, we will then deploy a Rails app featuring:Postgres databaseworkercustom domainTLS certificate from Letsencrypt (with auto renewals)periodic database backups to AWS S3logging to external service (a la heroku log drains).
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