Suggestion to self host Spring Boot Backend and Postgres DB
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JngoJx · 2023-10-04 18:16

Hi everyone,

I develop my hobby apps with spring boot backend and a Postgres DB. I
want to containerize both and host them. What would you suggest? I
don't want to go the kubernetes route. I want to rent a VPS, but is it
much to setup? Do I need a firewall?  How do I make sure that it is
secure?
In my dream world I rent the VPS, pull the docker images and start the
containers.


Best Regards

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-04 20:06

Any half decent hosting provider has a firewall enabled by default on
a rented VPS. So yes, you just rent it, install Docker, pull your
images and only open those ports you explicitly need.

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Brutus5000 · 2023-10-05 19:09

My default setup:

Rent a vps and install a minimal NixOS (eg Hetzner with nixinfect
script) that only provides docker and restic.

Use docker compose with host mounted volumes for your reach container
Setup NixOS / systemd jobs to backup your volume with restic to some
cloud storage

You probably want to use a reverse proxy to handle let's encrypt https
certificates. I suggest using traefik. Can be used in the same or
different docker compose file.