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I personally use Docker combined with a $5 droplet on Digital Ocean. This makes it easy to spin up multiple applications and sites without worrying about conflicting dependencies, and docker-compose gives me most of the benefits of orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes) that actually matter for my small scale usage.

Also Traefik makes a nice load balancer for this uage

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> docker-compose gives me most of the benefits of orchestration

I feel this is a very unappreciated feature of docker-compose. I've gotten pretty far with setting restart: always, baking a machine image, using cloud scaling and load balancers.

Interesting! When you rollout a new version, how do you coordinate docker-compose and Traefik to avoid any user-facing downtime (no 502)?

The simplest answer is I am the only user currently so it doesn't matter. Even with users, a short down time to bring down the old images and bring up the new images should be manageable. If I ever got to a point where that wasn't sufficient then I would consider that project successful enough to merit investment into zero downtime strategies and probably its own VPS as well.

From a more technical side, I haven't seen an issue with Traefik when I take a container down and back up again. The only delay I would anticipate is when you bring a new service online for the first time and Traefik detects it and configures + fetches LetsEncrypt certs for it.

Thanks.

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