Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

#1

Post by morpheyesh » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 3:17 PM UTC

There are quite a few automation platforms which help you deploy application on the cloud and test it real-time. Services like containership, elasticbox has got plethora of language/framework support and a good market place. But I am yet to find a good git based deployment system.

I do use containers to quickly setup services, but I still don't see a great git based deployment tool that I can quickly use to test my application during development.

Is there any good platform out there?

Would you mind paying $15 or so for such a platform which provides single click git based deployment on AWS or DO and supports all languages/framework and services?

Your thoughts?

Re: Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

#2

Post by onion2k » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC

I use Codeship to take code from BitBucket, test it, and push it to a host when something is merged in. I'm very happy with it. (The only annoying thing is that I need to whitelist the entire IP range of AWS's East Coast region on anything that my deployments do that requires IP based security.)

Re: Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

#3

Post by nibs » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

I am not sure I completely understand what this would look like from the description, but I have git-based deployment using Heroku. Features are developed in off-master branches, and then when you push to master, Heroku compiles from that and runs it in production. I like it.

Re: Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

#4

Post by morpheyesh » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 4:10 PM UTC

nibs wrote: post #3

I am not sure I completely understand what this would look like from the description, but I have git-based deployment using Heroku. Features are developed in off-master branches, and then when you push to master, Heroku compiles from that and runs it in production. I like it.

yes, heroku is good. But I am talking about using my own cloud providers. Like DO or AWS.

Re: Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

#5

Post by morpheyesh » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 4:13 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #2

I use Codeship to take code from BitBucket, test it, and push it to a host when something is merged in. I'm very happy with it. (The only annoying thing is that I need to whitelist the entire IP range of AWS's East Coast region on anything that my deployments do that requires IP based security.)

Dont you think CodeShip is a bit expensive? Also, I am keen on platform that works well with teams.

Re: Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

#6

Post by badri » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 4:48 PM UTC

Platform.sh is good, but it does not let you use your own servers for deployment.

Re: Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

#7

Post by morpheyesh » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 4:52 PM UTC

badri wrote: post #6

Platform.sh is good, but it does not let you use your own servers for deployment.

I guess its only for php applications. Right?

Re: Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

#8

Post by badri » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 5:33 PM UTC

morpheyesh wrote: post #4

nibs wrote: post #3

I am not sure I completely understand what this would look like from the description, but I have git-based deployment using Heroku. Features are developed in off-master branches, and then when you push to master, Heroku compiles from that and runs it in production. I like it.

yes, heroku is good. But I am talking about using my own cloud providers. Like DO or AWS.

You can try Convox. Seems to have all the stuff offered by Heroku, plus you can deploy in your own AWS servers.

Re: Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

#9

Post by moritzplassnig » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

morpheyesh wrote: post #5

onion2k wrote: post #2

I use Codeship to take code from BitBucket, test it, and push it to a host when something is merged in. I'm very happy with it. (The only annoying thing is that I need to whitelist the entire IP range of AWS's East Coast region on anything that my deployments do that requires IP based security.)

Dont you think CodeShip is a bit expensive? Also, I am keen on platform that works well with teams.

Codeship founder here, would love to get more feedback. What's your use case / team size? What price would be right?

Re: Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

#10

Post by morpheyesh » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 8:07 PM UTC

moritzplassnig wrote: post #9

morpheyesh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dont you think CodeShip is a bit expensive? Also, I am keen on platform that works well with teams.

Codeship founder here, would love to get more feedback. What's your use case / team size? What price would be right?

Actually your org/team is similar to github structure which makes sense. How many users have you got? I think the pricing is a bit too high. Using containers only for all heavy lifting I presume.. :)