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Targeting a specific use case (internal tools) should hopefully help avoid feature creep. Also, the goal is that an OpenRun config should work on a single-node with Docker and with…

I don't think you can provide all the features of Kubernetes while reducing the complexity. What is possible is to support a subset of the features of Kubernetes while making it ea…

Been working on making it much easier for application deployments to get access to a isolated database/schema. The usual pattern currently is to assume that each app creates a new …

Service binding is a feature that only large systems like Cloud Foundry support till now. Even Kubernetes does not have a functional implementation, the Red Hat operator is depreca…

Service binding is a feature that only large systems like Cloud Foundry support till now. Even Kubernetes does not have a functional implementation, the Red Hat operator is depreca…

Kubernetes offers powerful low-level primitives that can support virtually any deployment architecture. However, working with these primitives directly requires significant YAML wr…

Makes no sense if you look at the start menu as an interface to the operating system. Makes perfect sense if you look at it as one more place to show ads

Have been building a project https://github.com/openrundev/openrun/ which aims to make it easy for teams to easily deploy internal tools/webapps. While creating new apps has gotten…

Cloud Run makes lots of sense when running lots of small apps, apps scale to zero automatically. I have been building https://github.com/openrundev/openrun which provides similar s…

Another recent article on this topic https://www.arthurcnops.blog/death-of-show-hn/

I have been building https://github.com/openrundev/openrun for the last few years and recently added Kubernetes support https://openrun.dev/docs/container/kubernetes . OpenRun is a…

Authentication and authorization are important requirements for internal tools. Low-code platforms support authn/authz for app access. Building internal tools with code is much eas…

Building https://github.com/openrundev/openrun , a platform for declarative deployment of web apps. OpenRun runs as a web server, which does GitOps driven app deployments. You can …

https://devpu.sh/ is another alternative, it has a nice UI built with Hypermedia (HTMX). I am building https://github.com/openrundev/openrun/ . Main difference is that OpenRun has …

This post looks at the experience with using Starlark as against YAML for deployment configuration. Starlark can result in much more concise and flexible config. It does require ex…

There has been lots of discussions about the issues with YAML and other config languages. This post looks at the experience with using Starlark as the configuration language for in…

Yes, had similar questions. Wouldn't tuning the settings for the buffer table have helped avoid the TOO_MANY_LINKS error?

If you are fine with running lots of apps on one beefy machine, the project I am building https://github.com/openrundev/openrun provides a similar abstraction as App Runner and Clo…

I have been building OpenRun, a declarative web app deployment platform https://github.com/openrundev/openrun . It is an open source alternative to Google Cloud Run and AWS App Run…