vpskit

Use it when

• You just got a fresh VPS and want SSH hardening, firewall, fail2ban, and Docker set up without following a long manual checklist
• You want to deploy a dockerized app from a Git repo to your own server with a domain, automatic HTTPS, and one-command rollback

What it solves

Not the fit when

• Servers you lack root access to or distributions outside Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS, and Fedora.
• Running without verified console or recovery access: SSH hardening disables root login and password authentication and can lock you out if key transfer or firewall configuration is wrong.
• Unattended CI/CD or multi-server orchestration; those are roadmap items.
• Using its backup feature without independent restore testing and an off-host copy.
• Piping the mutable `main` branch directly into a privileged shell without reviewing or pinning the script.
• multi-server fleet orchestration
• non-interactive CI/CD pipelines (roadmap only)
• kubernetes or managed platform deploys

Install

Download `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mariusdjen/vpskit/main/vpskit.sh` to a local file, inspect or pin it to a reviewed commit, then run it from Git Bash/WSL/macOS/Linux. Do not pipe an unreviewed moving `main` script directly into Bash.

Invoke

Run the script and follow the interactive menu: initial setup performs system update, non-root user, SSH key hardening, UFW/firewalld, fail2ban, Docker, and Caddy with Let's Encrypt; then choose Deploy an application (Git URL, domain, port, .env) or Update/Rollback/Backup from the same menu

Alternatives

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