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Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by ineedasername »

talkingtab wrote: post #86

DO's kubernetes release is an an example of why I am a big fan. As a sole developer, I can't afford high technical debt, but DO packages tech in a way I can manage. I hope they keep on and wish other services (here's looking at you AWS) would package their services as well.

Yep, you can find cheaper VPS out there but for reliability and ease of use it's hard to beat. As for AWS, it's hard to beat AWS for the scope of services they offer, but at the scale of a handful of DO droplets, it's just not worth the effort it takes in AWS.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by dajonker »

peterwwillis wrote: post #43

Great job! Maybe now they'll have time to adjust their ssh-keygen documentation to fix their password cracking vulnerability. ( https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/08/03/the-default-openssh.h... )

Who cares about security? Containers! Containers! Containers!

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Post by Donzo »

fermienrico wrote: post #105
talkingtab wrote: post #86

DO's kubernetes release is an an example of why I am a big fan. As a sole developer, I can't afford high technical debt, but DO packages tech in a way I can manage. I hope they keep on and wish other services (here's looking at you AWS) would package their services as well.

I am a mechanical engineer who dabbles in web development from time to time. I am forever indebted to DigitalOcean for creating a super easy platform for someone who has no clue about VPS starting out. I know how to operate a linux machine but not the slightest idea about how to host a website myself until I came across DigitalOcean and their LAMP/LEMP tutorials. Once I was comfortable with DigitalOcean, I tried laun…

I bounced around hosting providers for years until I landed on DO. I have nothing but good things to say about them.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by juddlyon »

rfinney wrote: post #34

Serious question: Is there an emerging cross platform workflow language to just write stuff to run on any cloud/container hosting setup? The idea would be to be portable, avoid vendor lock-in and take advantage price differences or quickly route around a system failure in one of the providers.

Terraform/Packer/Ansible is a popular combo.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by bphogan »

fermienrico wrote: post #105
talkingtab wrote: post #86

DO's kubernetes release is an an example of why I am a big fan. As a sole developer, I can't afford high technical debt, but DO packages tech in a way I can manage. I hope they keep on and wish other services (here's looking at you AWS) would package their services as well.

I am a mechanical engineer who dabbles in web development from time to time. I am forever indebted to DigitalOcean for creating a super easy platform for someone who has no clue about VPS starting out. I know how to operate a linux machine but not the slightest idea about how to host a website myself until I came across DigitalOcean and their LAMP/LEMP tutorials. Once I was comfortable with DigitalOcean, I tried laun…

Hi! I'm a member of the Community team at DigitalOcean. I wanted to thank you for your kind words about our tutorials. This kind of feedback means a lot to us. We're glad we could help you get your web site set up.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by tyingq »

_kyran wrote: post #101
tyingq wrote: post #14

So now that's managed K8S, managed databases, load balancers, a cloud firewall that's partially VPC like, object storage and block storage. Curious what's next. Lambdas maybe?

Managed databases? Is this a private beta?

You can request access: https://try.digitalocean.com/dbaas-beta/

It was announced last month, discussion was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18294450

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by embwbam »

I’m just sitting down to do a new startup, but I’ve been out of the devops game for a few years. I feel behind.

What tools/platforms/hosts should I use?

The system will be your standard API+Database+Event bus+workers. I’m a fan of digital ocean and I’ve never bothered to learn AWS (besides S3). I’m very familiar with docker compose, but I’ve never gone deeper than that.

This is a first year startup, we aren’t cost constrained but we are extremely time sensitive.

Should I use Kubernetes? Or Is there something easier that will better serve us the first year?

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by duncan-donuts »

embwbam wrote: post #127

I’m just sitting down to do a new startup, but I’ve been out of the devops game for a few years. I feel behind. What tools/platforms/hosts should I use? The system will be your standard API+Database+Event bus+workers. I’m a fan of digital ocean and I’ve never bothered to learn AWS (besides S3). I’m very familiar with docker compose, but I’ve never gone deeper than that. This is a first year startup, we aren’t cost co…

I think it kind of depends on what you're familiar with. If you're a rails dev and you can build something crazy fast with rails vs anything else I'd just do that. If you're used to working in event-driven microservices environments, then do that. I'm working in an environment using node microservices, mysql, rabbitmq, with k8s and it works really well. I wouldn't say we're _faster_ because of k8s, but k8s really helps us move quickly once we get a service deployed to the cluster.

I'm also working on a start up, and chose to start with heroku and a PHP monolith (with a handful of microservices to do some of the heavy lifting) because those are the things that allow me to move fast. If we ever make some money and the product does find market fit, we'd probably move to something like k8s, but it definitely isn't a part of the early stages for us. YMMV /shrug

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