Zero To Production with a Twist

Following the Zero to Production book for learning backend development in Rust.

Twists

There are some twist to this project, I am self hosting it with the following steps:

• Build a container and store with the GitHub container registry after every push
• Log into the VPS and stop running container
• Pull latest container from the GitHub container registry
• Run the new docker container

NB: A postgres database is created in the VPS instance.s

Running on a VPS instead of an app platform leads me to implement things like autoscaling myself via HAproxy.

Deployment

The deployment of the application is done using docker-compose.

When a new version of the app is created, a container is built and stored in the docker container registry.

The docker compose file is then updated to reflect the new version and restarted.