Nowadays hosting your software with Kubernetes is complex, painful and a long journey. However some tools make it a lot easier to deploy and manage software on k8s. One of those tools is porter.dev. Since the project is still on a very early stage, I find it very diffcult to host it yourself. Therefore I want to provide a quick guide for hosting the platform yourself.

The docker compose file

version: "2.3"
services:
  porter:
    image: porter1/porter:v0.21.0
    restart: always
    environment:
      SERVER_URL: "https://porter.YOURDOMAIN.com"
      DISABLE_ALLOWLIST: "true"
      ENCRYPTION_KEY: $PORTER_ENCRYPTION_KEY
      COOKIE_SECRETS: $PORTER_COOKIE_SECRETS
      WELCOME_FORM_WEBHOOK: "http://somerandomurl.com"
      REDIS_ENABLED: "false"
      GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID:
      GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET:
      GOOGLE_RESTRICTED_DOMAIN: YOURDOMAIN.com
      DB_HOST: postgres
      DB_PORT: 5432
      DB_USER: porter
      DB_PASS: $PORTER_DB_PASSWORD
    expose:
      - 8080
    labels:
      caddy: porter.YOURDOMAIN.com
      caddy.reverse_proxy: "{{upstreams 8080}}"

  postgres:
    image: postgres:14.1-alpine
    restart: always
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=porter
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=$PORTER_DB_PASSWORD
      - POSTGRES_DB=porter
    expose:
      - 5432
    volumes:
      - $SERVICE_DATA_DIR/database:/var/lib/postgresql/data