I’m deploying a nodejs-based website for someone. It will be low traffic, but I want to make sure I’ve got all my bases covered in terms of best practices for deployment and security. This is what I’ve got so far:

• Code is hosted in private repo on private gitea instance
  • build into a docker image
• Separate repo for all deployment code using ansible
  • secrets are saved in a vault and templated to the host
• Runs on dedicated host with dedicated ipv4
• host has fail2ban installed and firewalled to only allow ports 80/443 and shh
• ssh hardened
  • non-standard port
  • public key auth only
• images are run on docker
  • non-root user
  • one network for app+db, another for app+reverse proxy
  • only mapped ports are 80/443 on reverse proxy container
• using swag for reverse proxy (includes fail2ban and letsencrypt)
  • php disabled
• backups
  • database dumped nightly
  • everything synced to backblaze (wip)

What else should I be doing? The one thing I know I don’t have is any monitoring. I’m going to set up some kind of healthcheck, but not sure if there’s anything easy to set up wrt log monitoring…

Thanks!