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📣 amir734jj

Heroku like platform built on top of Azure/AWS


I am wondering if is there a platform where we can quickly deploy an app with CI/CD and a database built-in where users use this Heroku-like interface but under the hood, it is just Azure or AWS and it takes care of all the complexities involved?

The reason I am asking this is this week I wanted to use Azure to deploy an app the same way I used Heroku and it was pretty complicated for very basic PoC apps. I was wondering if the is a tool or platform that abstracts things for common users.


  👤 josegonzalez Accepted Answer ✓
Dokku maintainer here.

You can use Dokku if you just need a CLI experience (it also has a paid web ui at https://pro.dokku.com). Works well enough for single servers, and you can use plugins to make it multi-server with Kubernetes or Nomad.

If you want to abstract all the multi-server setup and/or need something a bit more professional, I also work at a company called Porter (https://www.porter.run/), which handles the lifecycle of your app on top of the three major cloud providers. It provides a really nice experience on top of your own cloud, and abstracts the complexities of provisioning VPCs, networking, security, etc.


👤 Nextgrid

👤 flybayer
https://www.flightcontrol.dev is one that’s built on AWS