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The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers.

Language: Python

#50 in Node.js
#164 in Python
#19 in Raspberry Pi
#6 in Ubuntu
Gokrazy is cool | Sep 2023
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I never had any serious issue with SD cards since the Pi 2B (and I've kept Pis running for years).

Anyway, for those wanting to deploy more generic apps, that is why I initially wrote https://github.com/piku/piku - you still have to flash the OS (and rpi-imager does that with sane defaults these days), but once you're done you have Heroku-like deployments for any language runtime you install on the Pi.

I also have https://github.com/rcarmo/ground-init, a cloud-init like shim that simplifies setting up machines (I'm a big fan of cloud-init, but since Raspbian doesn't support it and Ubuntu on ARM requires some fiddling to make it work I decided it wasn't too hard to roll my own).

(I probably should look into glueing that into rpi-imager, but there is are only so many hours in the day...)
Ask HN: How do you deploy your side-projects? | Dec 2022
https://github.com/piku/piku - dozens of projects in various languages in the same tiny VPS.
Ask HN: What's Your Proudest Hack? | Dec 2022
https://github.com/piku/piku

Started as a hack, turned into the standard way of how I deploy all my personal projects, and then some.

Removal of Heroku free product plans | Aug 2022
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https://github.com/piku/piku if you’re self-hosting.
Ask HN: Are You Leaving Heroku? | Aug 2022
Those of you interested in the Heroku lifestyle and willing to have a quick and painless deployment experience (for simple apps) are welcome to try out Piku, a tiny Heroku-inspired PaaS for your own servers:

https://github.com/piku/piku

Dokku – Free Heroku Alternative | May 2022
I see it's a fork of piku, but I don't see an explanation of why they bothered to fork. Do you know what the difference is? https://github.com/piku/piku
Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost) | Apr 2022
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- piku https://github.com/piku/piku

- caprover https://caprover.com/
Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server | Dec 2021
Nice. I've gone down a different path and built https://github.com/piku/piku, which I use to run 12-15 web services (and batch workers) off a single-core VM in Azure, plus around the same amount of private services on a 4GB RAM Raspberry Pi.

I still use docker-compose and have a k3s cluster running, but I really like the simplicity of deploying via git.

Cloud-init for my core setups is here: https://github.com/piku/cloud-init

Show HN: A curated list of PaaS and tools to emulate PaaS on cloud | Oct 2021
Missing Piku: https://github.com/piku/piku