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Re: Cloud.gov

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Post by homero »

I'd love to use them. Going to the source will reduce latency because the mitm is removed. Now it's just the man. Seriously, I'd switch from DO.

Re: Cloud.gov

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Post by verst »

I'm about to join 18F (in a few weeks), working on cloud.gov.

I worked on the Google Cloud Platform team around the time Compute Engine and Big Query were launched (but spent most of my time on App Engine).

A few weeks ago at the Cloud Foundry Summit the folks from cloud.gov.au gave a keynote. Cloud.gov got some nice shoutouts - the Australian counterparts reused a lot of the cloud.gov work, thanks to the transparent open-source approach.

Listing of cloud.gov related Github repos: https://docs.cloud.gov/ops/repos/

Re: Cloud.gov

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Post by verst »

homero wrote: post #2

I'd love to use them. Going to the source will reduce latency because the mitm is removed. Now it's just the man. Seriously, I'd switch from DO.

You can certainly host it yourself on AWS, GCP, Azure etc.

The general services administration is restricted to only assist federal government agencies, so you wouldn't be able to use the version being managed for the federal government.

Re: Cloud.gov

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Post by darawk »

This is really cool. 18F has been doing a lot of amazing work, it seems like the possibility of government tech not totally sucking may be on the (somewhat distant) horizon.

Re: Cloud.gov

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Post by cloudjacker »

at first I was going to make fun of them for choosing "Cloud" half a decade after that buzz word reached its peak, but then I looked at the service and it is pretty cool

Re: Cloud.gov

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Post by jacques_chester »

homero wrote: post #2

I'd love to use them. Going to the source will reduce latency because the mitm is removed. Now it's just the man. Seriously, I'd switch from DO.

If you want a hosted Cloud Foundry, my employers run one in Pivotal Web Services[0], aka PWS, aka p-dubs.

IBM BlueMix includes a CF instance. There's also AppFog and AnyNines.

Naturally, I think ours is the best. It's usually the most up-to-date, based on the internal monitoring I've seen. We upgrade PWS to the latest Cloud Foundry release usually within a week of one being tagged.

My favourite part about it is that thanks to BOSH, basically nobody ever notices that we upgraded the entire platform underneath them.

[0] http://run.pivotal.io/

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