Announcing Exoframe 1.0 — simple Docker deployment tool
Exoframe started with one goal — to provide a simple self-hosted solution that allows one-command deployments using Docker.
I’ve been working on Exoframe since its beta announcement about 6 months ago. All that time Exoframe has been used for my personal project as well as for the number of projects we develop in our research group.
Today, I am excited to announce the 1.0 release of the Exoframe, a major step for the project. Exoframe is now considered “production ready”.
What’s new in 1.0
Over the time Exoframe gained a significant number of features that will help you manage and deploy your projects on your servers with ease.
Here’s a list of the features that Exoframe 1.0 provides out-of-the-box:
- One-command project deployment
- SSH key based auth
- Rolling updates
- Deploy tokens (e.g. to deploy from CI)
- Automated HTTPS setup via letsencrypt *
- Automated gzip compression *
- Simple access to the logs of deployments
- Docker-compose support
- Multiple deployment endpoints and multi-user support
- Simple update procedure for client, server, and Traefik
- Optional automatic subdomain assignment (i.e. every deployment gets its own subdomain)
* Feature provided by Traefik
What’s next?
This release is only the beginning. We’re planning to add a number of exciting and awesome features in the next months. I’ll highlight two of them here:
- We’re planning to add Docker Swarm support that’ll allow you to deploy and scale your projects across multiple servers.
- We’re also going to add support for deployment recipes. Imagine deploying something large and complex (e.g. Apache Spark stack) in one command — this is our goal here.
And, of course, if you have any suggestions — I’d be happy to hear them!
Project links
You can get Exoframe on GitHub, it only takes a few minutes to setup.
You can check out short video demo that walks you through setup and usage in ~8 minutes on YouTube.
Rest of the useful links along with documentation can be found in GitHub repository.
As usual — any feedback is appreciated!
