I will deploy nextjs nodejs app with docker nginx ci cd on aws vps

I've been a sysadmin/neteng long before "DevOps" became a title. That means when I set up your pipeline, I'm not just copying a YAML template I know what happens when the network hiccups, when the disk fills up, when the OOM killer visits at 3 AM.

What you get:

 Dockerfile written for production multi-stage, non-root, distilled to <100MB, not the 1.2GB default

 Nginx with proper TLS (Let's Encrypt, auto-renew via systemd timer), security headers, gzip, cache rules for _next/static

 GitHub Actions workflow: build test Trivy scan deploy smoke test rollback on failure

 Zero-downtime via systemd (or PM2 if you prefer) old container stays up until new one passes health check

 UFW + fail2ban baseline because exposed SSH on port 22 is how incidents start

 Runbook (PDF) architecture diagram, troubleshooting tree, "what to do when..." so you're not calling me at midnight

Stack I work daily: GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, Docker, Nginx/Traefik, AWS (EC2, RDS, ALB, S3), Hetzner/DO/VPS, Linux hardening, Terraform when you need IaC.

Packages:

Basic one service, prod only, 3 days

Standard FE + API + DB, staging + prod with approval gate, 5 days

Premium LB, auto-scale, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki