I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS
Seven years in the making (I admit that I did get a kid at some point which slowed down progress and brought it to a halt quite a few times), I decided to finaly release it, with a rather drastic change to the now (I believe) generous licensing model. Unlike current major players in this field, I decided to go with uncrippled, free version for commercial use for corps with up to 1M USD ARR. I poured my heart and soul into this, not because I was looking for financial success, but because I felt it just had to be done, given the price hikes wherever you look today. While my wife and kid were…
In plain words
fDeploy is a self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows teams deploying .NET applications to IIS. It runs as a single Windows service with built-in NuGet repository, OpenAPI REST API, and PowerShell execution capabilities. The tool manages projects, environments, and releases with frozen process and variable snapshots. Licensing is per server instance rather than per deployment target, with unlimited projects, targets, and users. The free tier covers companies with up to $1M annual revenue, while larger organizations can purchase commercial licenses.
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From the sources
Self-hosted deployment tool for Windows teams shipping .NET to IIS. Built-in NuGet repository, OpenAPI v3 REST API, IIS configuration and PowerShell execution - licensed per server, not per target.
Projects, environments, target roles, deployment processes, and releases carrying frozen process and variable snapshots. fDeploy Server runs as a Windows service on your own hardware. Deployment targets, projects and users are unlimited on every tier. fdeploy.com and docs.fdeploy.com are deployed with fDeploy. Built in Stockholm; first commit 5 March 2019. fDeploy Server on one machine, fDeploy Agent on every deployment target. No cloud component; the NuGet feed is part of the Server. The control plane, as one Windows service: dashboard, OpenAPI v3 REST API and the NuGet feed in a single process. It owns projects, environments, target roles, variables and release history. A Windows service…from fdeploy.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Seven years in the making (I admit that I did get a kid at some point which slowed down progress and brought it to a halt quite a few times), I decided to finaly release it, with a rather drastic change to the now (I believe) generous licensing model. Unlike current major players in this field, I decided to go with uncrippled, free version for commercial use for corps with up to 1M USD ARR. I poured my heart and soul into this, not because I was looking for financial success, but because I felt it just had to be done, given the price hikes wherever you look today. While my wife and kid were enjoying the beach during a vacation, I was using the time to figure out how to best tackle the problem with variable substitution and snapshots, a rather important part of the software. Pulling your hair kind of thing, many of you have likely been there, but darn does it feel good once you solve it! I know, not the best use of my time, but on the other hand, I hate the beach, so I guess this was an escape mechanism for me at that time :) I had received quite a few encouraging emails from people eager to try fDeploy back when I only had a tiny landing page out, but life has its own course and it took a while to even gather the courage to publish the first beta! As everything that sounds too good to be true in this day and age, fDeploy is no different. It does not support multi tenancy (a rather big feature which I'd love to work down the road) and a few other things may be missing which some companies may find crucial. Either way, I see this covering the needs of a large chunk of small to medium sized companies, so some "assembly" may be required. If only HN had the crowd which likes to get their hands dirty and find ways to make things work ;) I'd love to hear your thoughts and if you could take it for a spin. No signups, should be a smooth ride to get up and running and experimenting in minutes.Thanks!
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Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has. The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for…
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