Self-Hosted Infrastructure

2025 – present

Complete self-hosted platform on Hetzner VPS with custom CI/CD, SSO, reverse proxy, and multiple production web applications.

6+ production apps deployed and running

60-second deploy cycle from git push to live

Zero-downtime deployments with atomic swaps

The Challenge

Needed a reliable, low-cost way to host and deploy multiple web applications with automatic builds, HTTPS, authentication, and monitoring, without relying on expensive cloud services.

Approach

Built a custom CI/CD pipeline using bash scripts and systemd that polls GitHub every 60 seconds, builds via git archive, and deploys via rsync with automatic rollback on failure. Added Authelia for SSO, Caddy for reverse proxy with auto HTTPS, and self-hosted Supabase for PostgreSQL.

Key Highlights

Custom CI/CD: systemd polling, git archive builds, rsync deploys, automatic rollback
Authelia SSO protecting admin services
Caddy reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS for all subdomains
Self-hosted Supabase (PostgreSQL) and build monitoring dashboard

Technologies

BashsystemdrsyncCaddyAutheliaSupabaseDocker