Hi!

I've been trying to solve this for days now so I might finally just ask for help:

In my development docker-compose configuration, I have 4 containers:

• front: Vue app started using npm run serve on port 80
• back: Koa2 server for my API (Postgraphile for GraphQL)
• database: Postgres container
• front-balancer: Nginx server, sends / to front, /graphql to back

It works fine locally (although I probably should skip Nginx for development...)

Now I want to deploy it, and that's where my headaches began. My initial understanding is that I should not use npm run serve for front on production, but instead build my Vue app and serve the static files with Nginx.
But does that mean I do not need my front container in production and can just mount the built files to my Nginx container?

Or how would you approach this?

Then comes the actual deployment. I am still at a loss as to where (DO, Heroku, AWS??) and how to deploy it (CD workflow). But that might come as a later question once I figure out the step above!

Thanks in advance!