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Heroku was one of the first platforms that made it easy to deploy your app without having to manage the underlying infrastructure - this was a revolution back in the days and introduced the concept of PaaS (Platform-as-a-service) to the wider developer community. The main idea was to abstract away as much of the infrastructure as possible, so developers could focus on building and deploying their applications. However, a lot of time has passed, Heroku was bought by Salesforce and has become less competitive in terms of pricing and features....

This post will show you how to easily deploy containerized applications using faasd. Based on OpenFaas - faasd allows you to run and deploy container applications on a single host. While its big brother OpenFaas was (mainly) designed for Kubernetes-deployments, faasd is meant to be a lightweight alternative for those who just want to run a low-traffic app on one machine - ideal for side projects! I am using faasd to host personal projects like geozip: a simple webapp to search for global postalcodes....