Production ready alternative to snapd

Usually on some VPS if snapd does not work, it could have some outdated virtualization tech like OpenVZ with old version of linux kernel, or some other limited kernels that OVH or Kimsufi uses

There is no reason to use such outdated and old server tech

There is Digital Ocean etc cheap providers

and you can also run snap in any bare metal, KVM/XEN/HyperV/VirtualBox/VMware etc

Upcloud, Hetzner, AWS, Azure

Wekan runs on any laptop or desktop that has for example Ubuntu or Debian Linux installed

I think snapd was and is excellent to handle a dev environment, even thought I am used manually scripting everything, adjusting everything carefully and then commiting those procedures to a devops strategy with aws, google, etc plugins to terraform. So I agree, BUT

when wekan gets deployment in a production environment with hooks across servers sharing a mongo (a master slave system) there is not an easy path to doing that with Snap.

So I for one would like a more precise external set of bash level controls that like every other system I create lets me handle security (like authentication to mongo) and load balancing of both wekan services and databases.

So snap is great to build something easily and quickly. Then what happens?

For bash level controls, you download bundle wekan-3.xx.zip that is for x86_64 from https://releases.wekan.team and install it similarly like RasPi bundle: https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Raspberry-Pi

and start it as service

for that, only node + mongodb is required

or actually,when you already have mongodb somewhere, only node

that bundle does run on any server, also on those that have some kernel restrictions or OpenVZ

For external mongodb, it mongodb requires login, you can add username and password and IP address etc to MONGO_URL

It's also possible to use some part of bash autoupgrade script, if you need automatic upgrades https://github.com/wekan/wekan-bash-install-autoupgrade

there is some regex to download newest bundle

after downloading, unzip it, stop service, rename directories, start service

thank you for that detail

with those scripts we would be using mongo auth (unlike with the snap config where mongo is private (localhost) and with auth on mongo not enabled)?

Yes

Use urlencode for special characters https://www.url-encode-decode.com/

MONGO_URL=mongodb://myDBReader:D1fficultP%[email protected]:27017/admin

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/connection-string/

or: MONGO_URL=mongodb://myDBReader:D1fficultP%[email protected]:27017/wekan