Ooh this made me discover uncloud. Sounds like exactly what I was looking for. I wanted something like dokku but beefier for a sideproject server setup.
Skate author here: please try it out! I haven’t gotten round to diving deep into uncloud yet, but I think maybe the two projects differ in that skate has no control plane; the cli is the control plane.
I built skate out of that exact desire to have a dokku like experience that was multi host and used a standard deployment configuration syntax ( k8s manifests ).
A recommendation for Portainer if you haven't used or considered it. I'm running two EC2 instances on AWS using portainer community edition and portainer agent and works really well. The stack feature (which is just docker compose) is also super nice. One EC2 instance; running Portainer agent runs Caddy in a container which acts as the load balancer and reverse proxy.
