When an application works on my local machine, I often feel that the hardest part is over.

But getting it onto a VPS and sending someone a working HTTPS link still involves several tasks: cloning the repository, creating the environment file, choosing a build method, running the container, configuring a reverse proxy, pointing a domain, and issuing a TLS certificate.

None of these tasks is particularly new. The problem is that they repeat for almost every project.

That is why I built the deploy from Git repository feature in Nitrobase. The product has only recently launched and is still in Beta , so the goal of this feature is deliberately focused: shorten the path from source code to an application that can be reached on your own VPS.

One deployment begins with many small decisions

Suppose I have a repository containing a web application.…