Viewing profile — alongub

The main difference is granularity. Terraform runs a plan and applies it as a batch. If something fails, you re-run apply and it retries from the last saved state... but that state…

Thanks so much! If you have any other ideas, I'd really appreciate it if you could shoot them my way (alon AT alien dot dev)

Fair point

Alien is basically a huge state machine where every API call that mutates the environment is a discrete step, and the full state is durably persisted after each one. If something f…

> Would you support simpler deployment targets, like on premises VMs etc? https://github.com/alienplatform/alien/blob/main/crates/alie... :)

This is true even with fully-managed SaaS though. There are always users who don't want the new UI, the changed workflow, the moved button. But the update mechanism isn't really th…

At least they didn't ask you to TeamViewer into a Windows Server 2012 box and open Event Viewer..

Both are real risks. But supply chain attacks exist whether you self-host or not... you're still running the vendor's code either way. The question is whether you also want that co…

> Although unfortunately, we can't maintain _any_ connection back to our servers. Pull or push, doesn't matter. We're working on something for this! Stay tuned.

In practice, unmanaged self-hosting is often less secure, because you end up with outdated versions, unpatched vulnerabilities, and no one responsible for keeping things healthy. M…

Right, and that's when you do control the environment. Now imagine debugging that when it's your customer's infra, you have no access, and you're relying on them to copy-paste logs…

It's not RCE. The commands are predefined RPCs written into the deployed code. Customers can review and approve them. Trust between the vendor and the customer is still required an…

It's heavily inspired by Databricks' deployment model. And you're right that it's not "execute arbitrary commands". Commands are predefined functions in the deployed code that the …

Hi HN, I'm Alon, and I'm building Alien, an open-source platform for deploying your software into your customer's environment and keeping it fully managed. In my previous startup, …

Hi HN, I'm Alon, and I'm building Alien ( https://alien.dev ), an open-source platform for deploying your software into your customers' cloud accounts - AWS, GCP, or Azure — and ke…

Hi HN, I'm Alon, and I'm building Alien ( https://alien.dev ), an open-source platform for deploying your software into your customers' cloud accounts - AWS, GCP, or Azure — and ke…

AgentMail looks amazing!

Exactly

Foyer is great!