Our goal is to define a technology stack for hobby projects with minimal costs. We also want to offer real-world examples that go beyond canned tutorials showcasing isolated technologies or features.
We decided to gear this tech stack towards commercial projects which meant opting for a private container registry and code repository.
This example application uses React, Flask and PostgreSQL.
| Features | Tools | Alternatives | Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting | DigitalOcean | Vultur | 5$ |
| Container Registry (Private) | Azure Container Registry | GitLab Container Registry* | 5$ / Free |
| Repositories (Private) | Azure DevOps | GitLab, GitHub | Free |
| CI/CD Pipelines | Azure Pipelines | GitLab, CircleCI, Travis CI | Free |
| Web Server (Reverse Proxy) | Nginx | Free | |
| Web Performance & Security | Cloudflare | Free | |
| SSL Certificates | Let's Encrypt + Certbot | Free | |
| Multi-Container Tool | Docker Compose | Free | |
| IDE | Visual Studio Community | Visual Studio Code | Free |
| Front-end + UI | ASP.NET Core - MVC + React | Free | |
| APIs | Flask | Free | |
| Database | PostgreSQL | Free |
* GitLab Container Registry is only available for projects hosted on GitLab.
- DigitalOcean
- Azure DevOps
- Deployment
In order to provision Droplets on DigitalOcean you will need:
- DigitalOcean Account:
- If you don't have one, create your free DigitalOcean account.
- Domain Name: A domain name from any registrar that you can point to your Droplet. You can refer to this tutorial on DigitalOcean about how to point custom domains from common domain registrars to your Droplet.
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In order to use all of the tools in this stack you will need:
- Azure DevOps Services Organization:
- If you don't have one, create your free Azure DevOps Services account.
- Azure Account and Subscription: You will need an active Azure account and subscription to provision the private Azure Container Registry.
- If you don't have one, create your free Azure account;
- If you have an active Visual Studio subscription, you are entitled to free Azure credit every month. You can refer to this link to read more about the offer and how to start using your monthly Azure credit.
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For convenience, the steps to provision the Azure Container Registry have been scripted in PowerShell. The provisionContainerRegistry.ps1 script can be found under /src/infrastructure in the Azure DevOps repository.
In order to run the PowerShell script, you will need to install the Azure CLI. You can refer to Microsoft's quickstart guide to learn more about the commands used in the script.
.\provisionContainerRegistry.ps1 -resourceGroupName "hobbystacks-rg" -resourceGroupLocation "EastUS" -containerRegistryName "hobbystacksRegistry" -containerRegistrySku "Basic"- Docker Compose
- Azure Container Registry
- Nginx
- server_name
- ssl_certificate
- ssl_Certificate_key
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- Docker Registry
- Azure Container Registry
- SSH
- DigitalOcean
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- Build
- YAML
- Release
- Enable CD.
- Add Copy files over SSH step.
- Add SSH step.
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- Secret Variables
- Azure Container Registry - Username
- Azure Container Registry - Password
- Variables
- Certbot - Domains
- Certbot - Main Domain
- Certbot - Email
- Certbot - Data Path
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- Philippe Turcotte - Initial work
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.