Comment by silasb
Nice, I'm working in the same space as you (not opensource, personal project). We landed on the same solution, encoding the commands inside Golang and distributing those via SSH.
I'm somewhat surprised not to see this more often. I'm guessing supporting multiple linux versions could get unwieldy, I focused on Ubuntu as my target.
Differences that I see.
* I modeled mine on-top of docker-plugins (these get installed during the bootstrapping process)
* I built a custom plugin for deploying which leveraged https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout for zero-downtime deployments
Your solution looks much simpler than mine. I started off modeling mine off fly.io CLI, which is much more verbose Go code. I'll likely continue to use mine, but for any future VPS I'll have to give this a try.
hahah seems like we went down the same rabbit hole. I also considered `docker-rollout` but decided to write my own script. Heavily inspired by the docker-rollout source code btw. Just curious, why did you decide to go with docker plugins?