What tools do you use to manage your Grav backend beyond the CMS?

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Grav is awesome as a flat-file CMS, but I’m curious — what tools are you all pairing with Grav behind the scenes?

Would love to hear about your go-to utilities or stacks for things like:

  • Server automation or provisioning
  • Scheduled backups / deployment pipelines
  • Scripted updates for plugins/themes
  • User or access control workflows
  • Performance monitoring (especially on VPS or shared hosts)

Bonus points if it’s Linux-friendly or plays well with Git.

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Thanks for opening this topic.

i know this is not you are looking for but im going to tell what i use :slight_smile:

archlinux, gnome, tilix, fish, lunarvim, ranger, firefox, cromite, filezilla and many plugins those use.

im sorry to say i dont use anything that is in your list, and also wish to learn more about them thanks to this topic.

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Great question, Grav’s simplicity really shines when paired with the right tools.
Here’s what I typically use:

Rsync or Deployer for pushing changes across environments

Monit for lightweight uptime and service checks

Netdata for server resource and traffic monitoring

Fail2ban to block suspicious login attempts

GitHub Actions + rsync for automatic theme/plugin deployment

Puppet, Attune and Script Runner when I’m setting up new environments or tweaking NGINX configs

Anyone using cron or something else for scheduled plugin checks?