I kept finding myself wanting an Heroku/CloudFoundry-like way to deploy stuff on a few remote ARM boards and [my Raspberry Pi cluster][raspi-cluster], but since [dokku][dokku] still doesn't work on ARM and even `docker` can be overkill sometimes, I decided to roll my own.
Later on, I intend to do fancier `dokku`-like stuff like reconfiguring `nginx`, but a twist I'm planning on doing is having one `piku` machine act as a build box and deploy the finished product to another.
As a baseline, I intend to make sure this runs on the original Rasbperry Pi Model B (which is where I'm testing it).
But since I have an ODROID-U2, [a bunch of Pi 2s][raspi-cluster] and a few more boards on the way, it will be tested on a number of places where running `x64` binaries is unfeasible.
In general, it will likely work in any POSIX-like environment where you have Python and SSH (I'm very likely to test it under [Cygwin][cygwin] at some point).
**A:** Partly because it's supposed to run on a [Pi][pi], because it's Japanese onomatopeia for 'twitch' or 'jolt', and because I know the name will annoy some of my friends.
**A:** It should. `click` goes a long way towards abstracting the simpler stuff, and I tried to avoid most obvious incompatibilities (other than a few differences in `subprocess.call` and the like). However, this targets Python 2.7 first, since that's the default on Raspbian. Pull requests are welcome.
**A:** I use `dokku` daily, and for most of my personal stuff. But the `dokku` stack relies on a number of `x64` containers that need to be completely rebuilt for ARM, and when I decided I needed something like this (March 2016) that was barely possible - `docker` itself is not fully baked for ARM yet, and people are still trying to get `herokuish` and `buildstep` to build on ARM.
