Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker • Hacker News Board

It's still in the early stages of development. We're currently fundraising so that we can work on it full time. All code will be pushed to GitHub as we write it.

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by benatkin » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:13 PM UTC

amccloud wrote: post #3

So it's not open source yet?

I'd like the headline changed. Nothing in the headline or the url makes it sound like it's a funding page.

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by chatmasta » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:13 PM UTC

And this is why you shouldn't open source the core part of your business (looking at you DotCloud). Sure, Docker is good for the community. But it's also a key competitive advantage for DotCloud. By giving away that advantage, they create opportunities for viable competitors.

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by jpadilla_ » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:14 PM UTC

Seems like there's a CSS issue with the sponsor modal http://d.pr/i/Pgko

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by druiid » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:14 PM UTC

Very cool! Been looking for something like this since Docker was announced. Basically Cloud Foundry is far too complex for what I/we need but this would fit the bill nicely.

One question though, what is going to be 'the cluster' (The site says it distributes work across 'the cluster')? Basically, will it be capable of interfacing with cloud API's or will it just be you manually setting up a group of instances to host the machines to run Docker on top of?

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by druiid » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

chatmasta wrote: post #6

And this is why you shouldn't open source the core part of your business (looking at you DotCloud). Sure, Docker is good for the community. But it's also a key competitive advantage for DotCloud. By giving away that advantage, they create opportunities for viable competitors.

Indeed. I'm a bit curious as to why DotCloud released Docker? I mean, sure, someone was going to have an easy-to-use container system sooner or later, but for now that is one of the few defining features that DotCloud has going for them... although one of their competitors is successfully using a modified version of Cloud Foundry (AppFog).

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by _alex4nder » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

Titanous wrote: post #4

amccloud wrote: post #3

So it's not open source yet?

It's still in the early stages of development. We're currently fundraising so that we can work on it full time. All code will be pushed to GitHub as we write it.

I don't see this in the FAQ: the magic that makes all of this happen (which you're integrating) is technology built by other developers. Why should we be supporting you to do this work rather than the other developers who broke ground and already did a majority of the heavy lifting?