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IaC Deploy Generator

Pick your cloud (DigitalOcean, AWS EC2, Hetzner, Vultr, Linode/Akamai), your reverse proxy (Caddy, nginx, or Traefik), and the services you want to run. Emits Terraform HCL for provisioning (VM + firewall + volume + floating IP) plus an Ansible playbook for configuring (Docker, reverse proxy, TLS, the services themselves). One-command bootstrap to a hardened, HTTPS-serving host.

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1. Deployment target

Cloud provider

Region

VM size (~$$ / month)

Domain

Admin email (for TLS + alerts)

SSH public key path (on your machine)

2. Reverse proxy / TLS termination

Caddy: simplest, auto-HTTPS via Let's Encrypt/ZeroSSL, best for solo operators. nginx: battle-tested, more manual for TLS (certbot cron). Traefik: Docker-label-based routing, good for multi-service stacks.

Caddy 2

Auto-TLS, Caddyfile config, HTTP/3 by default. Recommended unless you have nginx muscle memory.

nginx + certbot

Industry-standard. More config verbosity, manual certbot renewal cron.

Traefik 3

Reads Docker labels. Great when all your apps are in docker-compose.

3. Services to deploy

Each selected service gets Docker-installed with a proxy route from the reverse proxy above.