Deploying to a VPS and adding Spring Boot
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This site's current deployment pipeline is push-to-deploy on Vercel. It's convenient, but it hides most of the actual infrastructure work behind a dashboard. The next project is meant to expose that work so I can understand it deeply.
The plan
A small standalone Spring Boot API containing one or two endpoints.
Containerize it with Docker, push to a registry, and deploy to a real host like Fly.io, Render, or an AWS free-tier box.
Why this, why now
Terraform and VMware taught me infrastructure-as-code and virtualization from the ops side. This is the other half: building the application that gets deployed, not just the environment it runs in.
Will follow up here once there's something running.