How to Run Docker, K3s and Traefik v3 with Auto-HTTPS on a Budget VPS
A developer has published the second part of a four-part series detailing how to build a production-grade self-hosted platform on a 10€-per-month VPS. The guide covers installing Docker, K3s — a lightweight SUSE-certified Kubernetes distribution — and Traefik v3 as a reverse proxy with automatic TLS certificate handling. K3s was chosen over full Kubernetes for its roughly 512 MB memory footprint, making it practical for a single-node server hosting multiple isolated projects. The setup uses Helm for reproducible deployments and enforces per-project resource quotas, with all infrastructure stored as YAML in Git. The author claims that once configured, deploying an HTTPS-enabled app requires only a single YAML file and no manual certificate management.
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