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Deployment Guides

Deployment Guides

Step-by-step guides for deploying modern web applications to production.

Deployment is where many developers get stuck. The gap between a working local application and a production-ready deployed application involves Docker, CI/CD, DNS, SSL, reverse proxies, and environment configuration. Our deployment guides cover this stack with real, tested instructions.

Next.js deployment to Coolify
Docker Compose production patterns
GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows
Nginx and Caddy reverse proxy setup
SSL certificate automation
Database connection and management
Environment variable management
Monitoring and health check setup
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What These Guides Cover

Our deployment guides are practical, not theoretical. Each guide starts from a working application and walks through every step to get it running in production: writing the Dockerfile, setting up the CI/CD pipeline, provisioning the server, configuring the reverse proxy, pointing DNS, and verifying the deployment.

Guides are tested and updated. We know they work because we use these exact patterns for our clients and our own projects.

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The Stack We Cover

We focus on the stack we actually use: Next.js 15 with the App Router, Docker multi-stage builds, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, Coolify for deployment management, Caddy as a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, PostgreSQL for databases, and Hetzner/DigitalOcean for VPS hosting.

These aren't hypothetical setups — they're what runs in production for real applications. If you follow the guides, you end up with a production deployment that matches what we run for our clients.

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Community and Support

When you get stuck on a deployment, Stack Overflow answers are often outdated, official docs skip the specifics, and forum posts are unanswered. We maintain these guides to be current and answer questions about them.

If you're stuck on something our guides cover, reach out. If it's a common question, we'll add the answer to the guide. Improving these guides based on real questions makes them better for everyone who follows.

Get your application deployed properly.

Whether you use our guides or need help deploying, we're here.