In this chapter, we learned about what it takes to deploy Vapor applications. We learned that this almost always happens through Docker. First, we looked at Docker and how it operates and how we can use it. We explored how the three introduced cloud providers all offer ways for us to deploy Docker containers.
Then, we looked at how to deploy to AWS and what it takes. In contrast to that, we did the same thing for Google Cloud. Finally, we also deployed to Digital Ocean. You may be wondering which one you should pick for your project. The truth is that they are all competitive and offer roughly the same features. Obviously, AWS and Google Cloud are offered by two companies that also run big projects themselves, but Digital Ocean has some noteworthy references too.
Now, we can tie what we've learned together and deploy our example shop backend in the next chapter.
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