Any love for python/django? Or maybe will wok on top of the heroku buildpacks?
Yep - we've got Django in our roadmap too!
Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
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Re: Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
#22I think this targets a real painful need, managing an EC2 app on your own is not lacking frustrations, simple things like creating a rolling backup of instances needs complex shell scripts and cron jobs or 3rd party apps like http://www.skeddly.com , you need to be fluent in linux administration if you want to do simple things like increase your boot storage space (actually need to remove it, create a new volume from…
Thanks for the feedback! Will address those shortly.
Re: Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
#23I've actually been using this since open beta. This is for those like me, who can do devops when pressed to, but really hate it otherwise. Which is most web devs I know. The neatest thing is being able to transfer your stuff to another provider within minutes. I haven't tried the manual thingy yet, seemed like too much fiddling, really. The cost in my case isn't significant, less than an hours worth monthly. I'd have…
Thanks for being a great user of Cloud 66. Keep the feedback coming!
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#24Re: Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
#25This is a neat solution for a reality those of us who have been building web applications for a decade have faced: If you want your application experience (code + infrastructure) to be stable for a number of years, you have to be more and more responsible for your entire stack.
A reality is what's popular today in how a Cloud, or bare metal is used will be outdated in a few years and it creates technical debt in the future.
It amazes me how developers can obsess over development practices, frameworks, etc and without a thought look at the ugly underbelly of their app that grows as their code and userbase does.
Many developers on HN don't seem to have a relationship with a codebase for more than a few years (I could be completely wrong), but that is the perspective I'm speaking from.
It's great to see this kind of tooling that's focused not on management of infrastructure by abdication, but more of a middle ground.
Juju also has me excited, I think it's part of the future in a way VMware and virtualization first emerged 10-12 years ago.
Re: Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
#26What about security? How do you address it?
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#27What about security? How do you address it?
We provision the servers to be as secure as possible at the OS level using open source and industry tested best practices. If you are running on a cloud vendor like AWS you can benefit from added security layer provided by our partners at Dome 9 to provide network level security.
Re: Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
#28Is this really just Rails, or any Rack-based application (such as a Ramaze site)?
Re: Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
#29I think this targets a real painful need, managing an EC2 app on your own is not lacking frustrations, simple things like creating a rolling backup of instances needs complex shell scripts and cron jobs or 3rd party apps like http://www.skeddly.com , you need to be fluent in linux administration if you want to do simple things like increase your boot storage space (actually need to remove it, create a new volume from…
doesn't amazon elastic beanstalk solve the "heroku-ish deploy on EC2" problem?
Re: Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
#30Does this have a comparable add-on or plugin architecture?
One of the main bonuses of Heroku is not necessarily the web/worker process management but the easy ability to manage: email, SSL, nosql, and tons of other misc stuff you need for an app.
With limited dev resources, its way easier to just let Heroku handle all that config. The default app setup and sys admin is not as big a deal.