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Have you used Dokku before, or did you look at it before settling on CapRover? (I'm just starting to look at both)

I have experience with Dokku, Flynn (also look at this if you're looking at Dokku), CapRover, k8s, and a tiny bit of Nomad.

I think CapRover has the best experience out of the Dokku/Flynn/CapRover "group". Not a huge Dokku fan. Would use Flynn over Dokku again, but I'd rather use CapRover over both.

https://flynn.io/

If you're intent on using Dokku, there's a useful web console:

https://github.com/palfrey/wharf

I would agree with that. I’ve used most of the various options for a DIY PaaS and also prefer CapRover.

CloudRon [1] is actually really great, but its pricing is prohibitive (and changes frequently) for side-projects, which is when I most want to use something like this rather than just deploying/managing the k8a myself.

[1]: https://cloudron.io/

Would you say CapRover is 'more complicated' or more suited to bigger projects than Dokku? I gave it a good hard look before deciding on Dokku, as my use case was so simple, but wondering whether it'll scale.

I'm a very happy Dokku user, I've been using it for years with no problems, though CapRover seems very interesting.

Given your Dokku experience, do you mostly interact with Buildpacks or Containers? And why?

How do you mean? I never touch the actual containers, I always just let Dokku take care of those, I just push the code with the Buildpack and Dokku handles the rest.

Oh wow, disregard that. I've never even touched buildpacks, didn't really know they were a feature. Everything I use is containers.

There is always a container in the end. But do you actually provide a Dockerfile along with your app code, or do you let buildpack create the container for you (ie. no Dockerfile in your source code)?

Yeah, it's all containers. Here's my template project:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/django-project-template

To chime in here, containers all the way. Started with buildpacks as that seemed like the ultimate zero-conf approach (like Heroku), but very slow, so switched to Containers. Works a charm.

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