From bare metal to live side projects in minutes not hours

I'm fed up of the complexity required to host my side projects. While some services shine as lamp post in this era of heroku replacmenets, i.e fly.io, I believe simple VPS can go a long way. The motivation behind sidekick is to make hosting your side projects as simple as possible, as cheap as possible and as production ready as possible; you will be surprised how much traffic a 12$/mo instance on DO can handle.

From baremetal to live side projects in minutes not hours and for the price of a couple of coffees a month

• Fly.io
• Kamal.dev

Simple CLI tool that can help you:

• Setup your VPS
• Deploy all your side projects on a single VPS
• Load balance multiple container per project
• Deploy new versions with Zero downtime
• Deploy preview environments with ease
• Manage env secrets in a secure way
• Connect any number of domains and subdomains to your projects with ease

• Deploy any application from a dockerfile
• Connect any domain to any of your side projects hosted on your VPS
• Automatic HTTPS and TLS certs for all your projects

• Zero downtime deployments
• Inject env secrets securely at run-time
• Deploy preview environments of any application with ease
• Handle more complex projects built with docker compose

• Normal deployment Empty nextjs project -> run sidekick launch -> app live with URL

• Normal deployment + env file Empty nextjs project -> make sidekick.env.yaml file with two lists "clear" & "secret" -> run sidekick env -> run sidekick lanuch -> app live with URL

• Normal deployment + env file + new version Same project -> run sidekick deploy -> Zero downtime deployment -> message when deployment is done and app is healthy

• Normal deployment + env file + preview env Make change into last project in home page -> commit file -> run sidekick deploy preview -> preview env live with URL

• Docker compose deployment Project with docker compose -> run sidekick launch -> app live with URL

• Docker compose deployment with env file Project with docker compose -> make sidekick.env.yaml file with two lists "clear" & "secret" -> run sidekick env -> run sidekick launch -> app live with URL

• Deploy accessory (mysql, pg, redis) Project with just docker file -> run sidekick accessory pg -> ask couple of questions -> db live with connection string