Strzibny J. Deployment from Scratch 2021

Textbook in PDF format

Today, I am releasing Deployment from Scratch, 1st edition. It was a long journey of more than three years, and it’s time to make it a reality. Of course, I could always do a one more read and rewrite a paragraph or two, but it’s just as important to stop at some point and let the world benefit from all that work.
It all started as a small resource of deploying a Rails application on a virtual server, but it outgrew itself by a large margin. Python, containers, NFS, or emails were included, among other things. It’s the single resource you need to get started with deployment. Although from scratch, it goes wide and deep.
It covers a lot:
networking and typical system administration
static sites, proxies, and load balancers with NGINX
SSL certificates with Let’s Encrypt
installing Ruby/Python and configuring Puma/Gunicorn
building systemd services and Docker containers
PostgreSQL and Redis administration
automation with Bash and git
discussing storage, backups, emails