Self-Hosting
Hosting should be easy - and while we have some amazing tools to make it easier, there are still a lot of things involved with self-hosting a project if you want to keep it secure and operational.
Modmon is the glue between a few of these amazing tools, reducing the friction of DevOps for self-hosted projects on any infrastructure. Modmon is 100% open source and MIT licensed, so you are free to own your own cluster and projects.
We have built-in support for things that help with self-hosting:
- SSH Tunnels / Virtual DNS
- Docker
- Docker Compose/Swarm
- Deployments
- Databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, etc)
- Search Engines (Elasticsearch, MeiliSearch, Typesense, etc)
- Caches (Redis, Memcached, etc)
- Tunnels (such as Ngrok or Cloudflare Tunnel)
- Secrets (such as Hashicorp Vault)
- Monitoring (such as Prometheus, Grafana, etc)
- And an unlimited number of other services from the community recipe library (WIP)
We include these "big league" tools with simplified pre-configured setups and configs.
Streamlined Services
The exact syntax of the CLI is is still being finalized. The following are provided as an example for now.
You can simply add things to your project with simple commands such as:
modmon add database
> Which database do you want to add?
> 1. Postgres
> 2. MySQL
> 3. MongoDB
> 4. Redis
> 5. Memcached
> 6. Custom
This will add a database to your project, and configure it to work with your cluster. It will handle the following automatically for any supported database:
- Database creation on all environments
- Connection to the Docker network for all environments
- Database user creation/permissions on all environments
- Backups / Snapshots
- Provide ENV variables to all applications based on the
modmon.yaml - Apply best practices for database security and hardening
So, modmon is not trying to reinvent the wheel - it is simply a tool that aims to glue together a toolset and GitOps-based workflow to make managing infrastructure effortless.
ARM Support
Ensuring that we always offer full support for ARM-based hardware is a top priority for us. Whether you are running on a Raspberry Pi, a Macbook Air, or a cloud-hosted ARM server, we will make sure that everything works as expected.
However, you as a developer do not need to support ARM if you do not want to within your project.
Adding a Node
The exact syntax of the CLI is is still being finalized. The following are provided as an example for now.
Adding a node to your cluster is as simple as:
modmon add node
> Which cluster would you like to add a node to?
> 1. Local
> 2. Production
> Please enter the IP address of the new node:
> 10.0.0.10
> Please choose an auth method:
> 1. SSH Key
> 2. Username/Password
> Please enter the SSH key to use:
> ~/.ssh/id_rsa
> Installing modmon-server on 10.0.0.10...
> Installation complete - please wait for the node to become ready. You can check the status with:
> `modmon status`
It can be made even easier by using a pre-configured provider:
modmon add node --provider vultr
> Which cluster would you like to add a node to?
> 1. Local
> 2. Production
> Please select the region to use:
> 1. New York (EWR1)
...
> Please choose a plan category:
> 1. Optimized Compute
...
> Please choose a plan:
| ID | Name | Cores | RAM | Disk |
|----|------|-------|-----|------|
| 1 | 1GB | 1 | 1GB | 10GB |
| 2 | 2GB | 2 | 2GB | 20GB |
| 3 | 4GB | 4 | 4GB | 40GB |
| 4 | 8GB | 8 | 8GB | 80GB |
| 5 | 16GB | 16 | 16GB| 160GB|
> Installing modmon-server on 10.0.0.10...
> Installation complete - please wait for the node to become ready. You can check the status with:
> `modmon status`
Node Maintenance
Modmon Server keeps all nodes up-to-date with the latest OS packages, and applies security hardening. It also handles the installation of Docker and Swarm/Compose, and ensures that all services are running. Modmon Server is also responsible for managing the Docker network, which is used to connect all services.