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Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Re: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Post by irjustin »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #20
irjustin wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're looking for confidence in infrastructure changes then I 100% recommend fighting through the 'horrible to write' CloudFormation/Terraform. CloudF is infra as yaml and Terra is as code. CloudF also has the CDK which can use TypeScript and be infra as code that 'transpiles' down to yaml. All options feel terrible. It's like learning a whole new programming language that takes 10 minutes to see if your code run…

Yep I definitely agree with the importance, it’s probably the most impactful technical debt we have. Clone environments is a big driving force for it too. I guess what I was hoping is that Beanstalk wasn’t designed with infra as code in mind, but things like Fargate were, and somehow it had become less horrible. Maybe that’s just never going to happen though and it’s the nature of the problem. Appreciate the pointer…

The code differences between ElasticBeanstalk and Fargate are not very far, but JUST far enough to be annoying.

Because you've worked with Beanstalk in the past, I would personally stick with it unless I'm looking to fight 2 issues at the same time - Learning Fargate & Learning CDK/CloudF/Terraform.

Fargate is not a panacea - Elastic Beanstalk does have very cool options/features.

Re: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Post by SingAlong »

techntoke wrote: post #42
SingAlong wrote: post #39

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I'm working on a command-line deployment tool that deploys to DigitalOcean and AWS LightSail (to start with). This is based on my experience deploying apps. I expect to finish the remaining work in the next few weeks. Can I contact you to try it out? (My email is on my profile)

You mean like Terraform?

I'm building a bunch of opinionated Ansible playbooks + tooling, with a Heroku-like experience.

Re: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Post by heliodor »

ev0xmusic wrote: post #45

Disclaimer: I'm entirely biased. I am the CEO of Qovery. I created [Qovery]( https://www.qovery.com ) to address this problem of simplifying the Cloud. Allow streamlining the use of the Cloud for any developer. Today traditional players stack layers to simplify what they have created but without going out of their way of seeing things. Qovery makes application deployment very pragmatic for developers because we put o…

Unrelated, why are you using parallax effects on your landing page? It works really poorly when I scroll down fast.

Re: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Post by LeSaucy »

mplewis wrote: post #21
chopraaa wrote: post #18

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Curious to know why you think so? ECS is a managed service. If Swarm was a managed service on AWS, I'd agree with you here but that's not the case. Swarm is still brilliant for running multi-node deployments.

Mirantis purchased Docker Enterprise at a firesale price last year. They've pledged support for two years, and they say they will be "continuing to invest in active Swarm development," but the writing is probably on the wall. Their release was more excited about K8s.

Which is disappointing. Swarm is infinitely easier to setup and get running, and it scales down / uses WAY fewer resources than k8s.

Re: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Post by leetrout »

SingAlong wrote: post #52
techntoke wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean like Terraform?

I'm building a bunch of opinionated Ansible playbooks + tooling, with a Heroku-like experience.

I’m curious- why ansible instead of terraform for dealing with the cloud provider APIs for your base layer of infrastructure?

Re: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Post by ejoiii »

heliodor wrote: post #53
ev0xmusic wrote: post #45

Disclaimer: I'm entirely biased. I am the CEO of Qovery. I created [Qovery]( https://www.qovery.com ) to address this problem of simplifying the Cloud. Allow streamlining the use of the Cloud for any developer. Today traditional players stack layers to simplify what they have created but without going out of their way of seeing things. Qovery makes application deployment very pragmatic for developers because we put o…

Unrelated, why are you using parallax effects on your landing page? It works really poorly when I scroll down fast.

You are correct that this is completely unrelated.

Re: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Post by secondcoming »

b112 wrote: post #47
secondcoming wrote: post #36

None of this is simple. We're drowning in YAML files. It's difficult to maintain. Jinja + ansible + helm... it's a joke. There must be a better way of doing all this.

The real problem is, people are deploying dozens of different coding languages, any technology that whimsically passes by, and replacing simple, streamlined monolith technology with 100 micro services. All of this is endlessly pushed by AWS, Google, Docker, and anyone else with a foot in the "Snag as much cash from DEVs" crowd. Other old timers will explain how they ran thousands of hits/second on 6 or 7 bare metal s…

It's a totally valid rant, and one that I enthusiastically agree with.

I work in adtech (apologies). We have maybe 10 - 15 instances (16 vCPUs, 31GB RAM) that each handle 10k+ HTTP requests per second. There's a push to dockerise all this. I don't see the point.

I've often wondered about the potential performance loss of Dockerising all this, do you have public numbers available? We recently hired a ex-Googler to a management position who claims that on GCP, running docker may actually perform better than VMs. If true, that's really interesting, but I can't find anything to back it up.

Code optimisation (or even profiling) seems to be a dying art since people think that it's easier to just throw CPUs at the problem.

Re: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Post by sp332 »

clappski wrote: post #43
ramraj07 wrote: post #35

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I question this logic - there seem to be fundamental differences in even the basic services between various cloud providers. For example you can resize a compute-attached disk size live in GCP while you can't in AWS. Many intricacies like this are annoying, but at the same time advantageous if you know and use them. If you are primarily trying to just offer another layer on top of these cloud services, (like snowflak…

You can create/resize/delete non-root EBS volumes without any downtime of the attached host(s), as far as I'm aware? Pretty sure I've done so in the past. You'll have to resize2fs or whatever but it shouldn't take any downtime.

EBS is not "compute-attached". GP means the disks that appear to be local to the instance.

Re: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Post by sacredcows »

heliodor wrote: post #53
ev0xmusic wrote: post #45

Disclaimer: I'm entirely biased. I am the CEO of Qovery. I created [Qovery]( https://www.qovery.com ) to address this problem of simplifying the Cloud. Allow streamlining the use of the Cloud for any developer. Today traditional players stack layers to simplify what they have created but without going out of their way of seeing things. Qovery makes application deployment very pragmatic for developers because we put o…

Unrelated, why are you using parallax effects on your landing page? It works really poorly when I scroll down fast.

Scroll down slower

Re: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

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Post by callamdelaney »

sunilkumarc wrote: post #38

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You are literally trying to sell product in every single post you make.
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