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About the Book
Self-Hosting is no whichcraft.
It is just a skill like any other. It gets hard really fast because infrastructure inherently is hard. But as a single developer or indie hacker you are not an enterprise. You do not have an SLA with 99.9999% uptime. You just want to run one or more applications in a cost-effective and easy way to validate your bets.
We will check out the cloud providers next to Big Tech. Choose an operating system and install docker. Set up some basic security measurements, and automatic updates for the OS and your containers. Look at web servers and DNS providers. Choose a monitoring solution, and set up backups.
No Kubernetes, no clusters, no complex stuff. No new tool for automation. A good old one-time hands-on setup and you can call it a day and have a platform for all your ideas and bets to come.
About the Author
Andrej Friesen is a full-time nerd by passion. Originally studied engineering but switched to his passion: DevOps.
He started his career with hosting in-house applications on VMs, moved those applications to containers, and then AWS with Kubernetes. Designed the infrastructure and ran several Kubernetes clusters for several environments before AWS offered a managed solution (EKS). He also was one of the early beta testers of AWS EKS.
Afterward, he got down the stack, to a German cloud provider. Building the cloud and its products like Kubernetes as a Service, Filesystems as a Service, Databases as a Service, etc.
From using the Cloud to building the Cloud.
He is also writing on his blog about self-hosting, DIY electronics, home lab, home automation, and various other topics at: https://www.ajfriesen.com