Gordon is a tool written in Go that aims to simplify the deployment of your containerized web applications. It automates the process of integrating your locally built image into your self-hosted setup. Additionally, Gordon coordinates domain routing through Traefik, which needs to be pre-installed. This eliminates the need for manual configuration and streamlines the development process.
Key Features
- Quick Deployment: Deploy container images effortlessly using the command
gordon deploy <image:version> -p 8080:80 -t gordon.sld.tld - Self-Hosted: Operates within your existing self-hosted environment.
- Web UI: Provides a simple web UI to manage your deployments, domains, exposed ports, and more.
- Automated Routing: Collaborates with Traefik to automatically route your application to your desired domain or subdomain.
- One binary: Gordon follows the Golang philosophy of keeping things simple, offering a single binary for all functionalities.
- Minimal stack: Sqlite3 is used as in memory database (no ORM), the web UI is built using Go templates, HTMX and Tailwind CSS
Why ?
I found myself spending excessive time manually deploying my containerized applications using remote SSH. Being a lazy developer, I wanted a tool that would automate this process. However, I couldn't find one that met my requirements (dead simple), so I decided to make my own.
Development Status
🛠️ Note: This project is currently under heavy development. A 0.1 release with basic features will be available soon.
TODO for 0.1 release
- Basic web UI for managing deployments
- CRUD operations with the container engine
- Improve authentication security
- Interaction with the database
- New version update mechanism (backup, rollback etc.)
- Basic CLI to push images to the container engine
License
Gordon is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. Please see the LICENSE file for more details.