https://lab.artur-rios.tech/tags/deployment/Recent content in Deployment on Artur Rios LabHugoen-usWed, 21 Oct 2026 17:55:00 +0000https://lab.artur-rios.tech/infrastructure/infrastructure-deploys/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:55:00 +0000https://lab.artur-rios.tech/infrastructure/infrastructure-deploys/<p><a href="https://github.com/artur-rios/yggdrasil">Yggdrasil</a> is the deploy manager I built for my server. It does one job: take an application from a GitHub repository to a healthy container in the right environment, and back to the previous version if the new one does not come up. This part follows a change from a pull request to production.</p> <h2 id="one-catalog">One catalog<a class="heading-anchor" href="#one-catalog" aria-label="Link to this section"></a></h2> <p>Everything yggdrasil knows comes from one file, <code>catalog.yaml</code>, in three layers:</p>https://lab.artur-rios.tech/infrastructure/infrastructure-overview/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:55:00 +0000https://lab.artur-rios.tech/infrastructure/infrastructure-overview/<p>Every project eventually has to run somewhere, and deciding where for each one separately is how a hobby turns into a pile of accounts, bills and half- remembered setups. So I decided once, by kind of project, and every new project inherits the answer. This series describes that setup, as it runs today.</p> <h2 id="the-decision-table">The decision table<a class="heading-anchor" href="#the-decision-table" aria-label="Link to this section"></a></h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>I&rsquo;m building</th> <th>Stack</th> <th>Hosting</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>A marketing or product page</td> <td>Next.js with shadcn/ui</td> <td>Vercel, behind Cloudflare</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A static portfolio or brochure site</td> <td>Astro, or a Next.js static export</td> <td>Cloudflare Pages or GitHub Pages</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Technical documentation</td> <td>Hugo with the Docsy theme</td> <td>GitHub Pages</td> </tr> <tr> <td>An interactive web app</td> <td>Flutter, built for the web</td> <td>My server: Docker, Traefik, yggdrasil</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A backend API</td> <td>ASP.NET Core</td> <td>My server: Docker, Traefik, yggdrasil</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A reusable package</td> <td>NuGet, or the language&rsquo;s own format</td> <td>nuget.org and GitHub Packages</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="the-rule-behind-it">The rule behind it<a class="heading-anchor" href="#the-rule-behind-it" aria-label="Link to this section"></a></h2> <p><strong>Anything with a running backend is self-hosted; everything else is not.</strong></p>