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What’s the advantage of this over Kamal? (https://kamal-deploy.org/)

Also Dokploy, Dokku, Coolify and similar

Another option you could consider is a tool I have been building for deploying webapps across a team. https://github.com/claceio/clace has the usual deployment related functionality like gitops, TLS certs.

It has some unique features like supporting OAuth authentication for the apps, staging env for each app (code and config changes are staged before deployment), supporting declarative update, supporting hypermedia based apps natively etc.

This is so cool! The scope is a bit broad (it’s a build tool, DevOps tool and a hypermedia app framework?) – maybe you could split this into multiple projects and start a whole ecosystem?

I’m also working on a deployment tool, though not nearly as ambitious – it’s just a Docker dashboard based around Compose files: https://lunni.dev/ (though it does everything Traefik does, and GitOps are also definitely on the roadmap)

Thanks. Clace is built for teams to be be able to deploy internal tools (Streamlit/Gradio etc). That use case requires some extra features (OAuth/Auditing/Declarative config etc). Kubernetes with ArgoCD plus IDP seems to have become the default solution, which is overkill for such use cases.

The Hypermedia based app support was added to be able to build a management dashboard for Clace itself, without going down the SPA route. It made sense to expose that for end uses to be able to build their own apps.

Nice! What would be the difference with Dokploy for instance?

Nice! I'll check it :)

I like that it's a single file executable. But Kamal offers much more, for eample zero-downtime deployment.

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