Selfhosting with Dokku and Docker Compose - The Hidden Blog
A few days ago I was happy to see a post about Dokku on the HN frontpage. This reminded me that I wanted to briefly write up my experience of switching to Dokku as well.
I've recently set up a new server and was looking into a nice way to organize my various websites and an easy to way self-host my Rails apps without having to spend a lot of money on expensive cloud services. I do neither need the possibility to "scale" nor is downtime a big issue.
As already mentioned at the beginning I've decided to use Dokku. It's very simple, easy to uninstall without any interruptions to the running services and it officially supports mixed workloads. This allows me to run Docker containers managed by Dokku and others that are managed through a regular Docker Compose file side by side. I have more complicated services that I didn't want to port to Dokku right away (or ever) so this was a big selling point to me.
Getting clarification on this was also the first interaction I had with the project as I've asked that question in their GitHub community. I've received a response from the maintainer within 2 hours!
