On: Rails on Docker

[hit8run]

I use dokku. Works really well.

[ezekg → hit8run]

IIRC, Dokku can only manage 1 server, so it's essentially useless for anything except small side projects that don't need to scale horizontally.

[josegonzalez → ezekg]

Maintainer of Dokku here:

We support Kubernetes and Nomad as deployment platforms, and folks are welcome to build their own builder plugins if they need to support others.

[hit8run → ezekg]

How do you define small side projects? One potent server is enough to serve multiple thousand of requests per second…

[ezekg → hit8run]

Small side project, meaning anything that's fine with occasional downtime.

You should run at least 2 servers for redundancy, regardless of size. You just can't lean on a single server, even if you can squeeze thousands of RPS out of it (big doubt).

It will inevitably fail, and you will have downtime.