A slightly opinionated guide to turning a small Hetzner VPS into a clean base host for self-hosted apps. In this first part we will create the server, point a domain at it, install Podman and Caddy, and get a test app online over HTTPS.
In Part 1 we built the base host: Ubuntu, Podman, Caddy, and a domain serving traffic over HTTPS. In this part we will automate deployments so a merge to main pushes your latest code onto the server and restarts the app.
Every aspect of EasyRunner is designed with security in mind. While it's impossible for anybody to guarantee of being 100% secure, making security a first class design requirement goes a long way to significantly reducing the risk. A web host server has multiple vectors that needs to be secured. Here's how networking of a host server get's configured with network security in mind.
What motivated building EasyRunner.