What Is Sidekick

Bare metal to production ready in mins; imagine fly.io on your VPS

Sidekick is made to make your life easy as you deploy your applications. It’s meant for people who care about shipping as fast as possible while doing things the right way. Sidekick is designed to allow you to host multiple applications on a single VPS and take care of making them production ready. If you get enough traction, scale up your VPS and call it a day!

Motivation

I’m tired of the complexity involved in hosting my side projects. While some platforms, like Fly.io, stand out in the crowded field of Heroku replacements, I believe a simple VPS can be just as effective. That’s why I created Sidekick: to make hosting side projects as straightforward, affordable, and production-ready as possible. You’ll be surprised how much traffic a $8/month instance on DigitalOcean can handle.

You can read more about this and more in mindset section

Features

• 👍 One command VPS setup (docker, traefik, sops, age)
• 💻 deploy any application from a dockerfile
• ✊ Zero downtime deployment
• 🌏 High availability and load balancing
• 🔒 Zero config SSL Certs
• ✅ Connect domains or use sslip.io out of the box
• 🔥 Built in integration with SOPS
• 🛸 Escape the vendorlock forever