DigitalOcean launches its container service • Hacker News Board

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

#131

Post by codyb » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 10:48 PM UTC

I've been a huge fan of digital ocean ever since I started renting a 5 dollar vps several years ago.

Their UX consistently is easy to navigate, has great documentation, and looks great as well.

I may not be in the category of users that requires or needs many of the features they've released, but I'm consistently impressed by how easy it is for me as a non devops engineer to grok exactly what each new feature they release is.

This looks super neat, I don't have any need for kubernetes as a small time vps consumer, but always happy to see them move forward in this manner.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

#132

Post by lugg » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 10:51 PM UTC

binaryapparatus wrote: post #128

Sorry if off-topic: How does DO compare to Linode? I have lots of experience with Linode but since I hear good things about DO I would love to try it out.

In my (personal) experience, you trade linodes customer service for digital oceans ssd speed.

Neither have very good CPU stats.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14055243

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

#133

Post by askaboutit » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 10:51 PM UTC

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…

Checkout zeit.co or apex/up. Both very easy and great for hosting many parts of your apps. Just no database.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

#134

Post by lotyrin » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 10:52 PM UTC

mark-ruwt wrote: post #120

_kyran wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance you've got an open source version of this script that you could share?

No, unfortunately, open-sourcing it has been on my to-do list for an embarrassingly long time. But, building one is easier than it sounds! Think of the problem in two parts. First, find a distro used by multiple providers (we're on CentOS) and craft one script that uses each provider's API to spin up a clean machine. Once you have that done, it's a matter of understanding your own build process, writing a script that…

Also if your providers + OS support cloud-init, then you can express a fleet of instances which run this sort of script at boot time in something like Terraform pretty easily. Switching clouds becomes "uh... what does call their instance again?"

Alternatively, pre-baking cloud images that have already run such a script and are ready to boot becomes pretty easy with a tool like Packer.

Though, as the underlying OS changes, you'll need something to validate your scripts' functionality against, and a tool that's a little more declarative might make them less fragile to those changes.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

#135

Post by lugg » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 10:53 PM UTC

mark-ruwt wrote: post #120

_kyran wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance you've got an open source version of this script that you could share?

No, unfortunately, open-sourcing it has been on my to-do list for an embarrassingly long time. But, building one is easier than it sounds! Think of the problem in two parts. First, find a distro used by multiple providers (we're on CentOS) and craft one script that uses each provider's API to spin up a clean machine. Once you have that done, it's a matter of understanding your own build process, writing a script that…

Is this a cookie cutter stack or do you have different models? Be curious to hear more about your application stack.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

#136

Post by speedster217 » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 11:04 PM UTC

bphogan wrote: post #125

fermienrico wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just want to add on to this. Whenever I'm looking up a piece of software and I find a Digital Ocean tutorial on it, I know I'm in good hands.

Have yet to find a tutorial that wasn't great!

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

#137

Post by mark-ruwt » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 11:10 PM UTC

lugg wrote: post #135

mark-ruwt wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, unfortunately, open-sourcing it has been on my to-do list for an embarrassingly long time. But, building one is easier than it sounds! Think of the problem in two parts. First, find a distro used by multiple providers (we're on CentOS) and craft one script that uses each provider's API to spin up a clean machine. Once you have that done, it's a matter of understanding your own build process, writing a script that…

Is this a cookie cutter stack or do you have different models? Be curious to hear more about your application stack.

There's nothing special about our stack. We have four different instance types (static, api, db, proxy), and we rely on a lot of the usual suspects: Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Varnish, and HAProxy.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

#138

Post by Fomite » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 11:11 PM UTC

bphogan wrote: post #125

fermienrico wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Chiming in as well. You guys do solid work, and have untangled me more often than I can count.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

#139

Post by mark-ruwt » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 11:13 PM UTC

lotyrin wrote: post #134

mark-ruwt wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, unfortunately, open-sourcing it has been on my to-do list for an embarrassingly long time. But, building one is easier than it sounds! Think of the problem in two parts. First, find a distro used by multiple providers (we're on CentOS) and craft one script that uses each provider's API to spin up a clean machine. Once you have that done, it's a matter of understanding your own build process, writing a script that…

Also if your providers + OS support cloud-init, then you can express a fleet of instances which run this sort of script at boot time in something like Terraform pretty easily. Switching clouds becomes "uh... what does call their instance again?" Alternatively, pre-baking cloud images that have already run such a script and are ready to boot becomes pretty easy with a tool like Packer. Though, as the underlying OS cha…

I started using this model in '15 and it's not fragile. At all. The less I'm relying on outside frameworks, the better I sleep at night.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

#140

Post by dorgo » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 11:14 PM UTC

codyb wrote: post #131

I've been a huge fan of digital ocean ever since I started renting a 5 dollar vps several years ago. Their UX consistently is easy to navigate, has great documentation, and looks great as well. I may not be in the category of users that requires or needs many of the features they've released, but I'm consistently impressed by how easy it is for me as a non devops engineer to grok exactly what each new feature they re…

Usually, I'm never satisfied with products/services and always wonder how they managed to screw up. To counter this behaviour I created a list with things which just work and I have nothing to complain about. DO is on this short list.