Cocotte aims at easing the learning curve for web developers starting with cloud hosting and application containerization. You get a basic and affordable installation, allowing you to focus on your project(s) first, and learn about your infrastructure later:

• Docker containers for all processes.
• Digital Ocean as the cloud provider.
• Traefik as the reverse proxy for hostname routing and SSL certificates automation.

Requirements

• A Mac or Linux operating system.
• Docker (including Docker Compose and Docker Machine).
• A Digital Ocean account.
• A domain name using the name servers of Digital Ocean.

Installation

• Install Docker.
• Linux only: install Docker Compose.
• Install Docker Machine.
• If you don't have a Digital Ocean account, create one with this link and you will get a 100$ credit.
• Generate a Digital Ocean API token with write permissions.
• Make sur you have a domain whose name servers are set to:
  • ns1.digitalocean.com
  • ns2.digitalocean.com
  • ns3.digitalocean.com

Usage

• Run the wizard.

   $ docker run -it --rm chrif/cocotte wizard
  

• Display help for the install command.

   $ docker run -it --rm chrif/cocotte install --help
  

• More usages

Reference

• Console API Reference
• The machine directory

Pricing

If you already have a Digital Ocean account, then you probably know about cloud pricing. For those who don't, you are charged $0.007/hour by Digital Ocean for the machine that Cocotte creates. So just testing Cocotte and then destroying the machine costs less than 1 cent. Keeping the machine online for a month costs 5$.

Read about Digital Ocean pricing.