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Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by danielsiders »

vhodges wrote: post #120

Re: 1500 Minimum, definitely understand the model you're going for, but some of us ARE companies, just really small. I'd be happy to contribute at a lower level (at least $100, possibly up to $500) as I do see the value in this. Dokku is more than sufficient for my needs at the moment, but see Flynn as a natural extension to that.

Thanks for your interest. Of course we're happy to accept small contributions from companies. I just sent you an email with details. for anyone else who's interested in contributing on behalf of an organization, please email: contact@flynn.io and we'll set you up at whatever amount you feel comfortable with.

We'll start accepting personal contributions next week as well.

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by [deleted] »

efuquen wrote: post #116
DigitalJack wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are leaving money on the table.

I don't think the point is to "profit" as much as it is to fund the project. Notice these aren't "customers" but sponsors. Maybe the mindset of "money is being left on the table" isn't quiet the right one for this sort of project ...

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Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by joeblau »

cabalamat wrote: post #122

Is there an explain-like-I'm-5 explanation of what this is and why it is useful? Because I've only a very vague idea of what it's about.

Think of a Platform-as-a-service like a web server that is already configured for multiple languages and all you have to do is install your web application and start/restart it.

The idea is that you can turn on and off web servers really quickly to do tests and also that it should scale as the amount of work that your web application needs scales.

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by X4 »

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.

@titanous Jonathan Rudenberg Are you the only developer on this project currently? Sorry, just found your FAQ is at the bottom of the page and the question I had was on the bottom right corner ;)

Just in case someone is too lazy to look it up himself: He's not alone and teamed up with Jeff Lindsay.

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by Titanous »

X4 wrote: post #126
Titanous wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

@titanous Jonathan Rudenberg Are you the only developer on this project currently? Sorry, just found your FAQ is at the bottom of the page and the question I had was on the bottom right corner ;) Just in case someone is too lazy to look it up himself: He's not alone and teamed up with Jeff Lindsay.

Nope, Jeff Lindsay (http://progrium.com) is the other half of the team.

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by darkarmani »

mwcampbell wrote: post #79
danielsiders wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flynn is particularly appealing to companies that need to completely control their own infrastructure. In the same sense that git being open source helps, not hurts github, I think there's limited crossover between the users of Flynn and DotCloud customers.

Who in their right mind would pay $0.288 per hour (a little over $200 per month) to dotCloud for roughly the equivalent of an EC2 small instance, when with just a little extra time spent up front, they'll be able to fire up an AMI of Flynn and pay less than a quarter as much per month?

It seems to be working well for people paying for EC2 instances when they could be racking the hardware themselves. Having APIs, support, and a dedicated team handling the infrastructure is worth paying for to plenty of people.

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by ripperdoc »

sciurus wrote: post #59

"Unlike existing open source PaaS products, Flynn focuses on providing a set of modular components that can be replaced and reused." I wonder if there is anyone here who works on CloudFoundry or OpenShift and could comment on this, or comment on the proposed capabilities of Flynn ( https://github.com/flynn/flynn-spec ) compared to the capabilities of their systems.

I'm a user of OpenShift, and to be honest, it sounds like they are doing exactly what Flynn wants to do (but without Docker). They have cartridges, both official and community made, but they can also be bypassed and customized, as far as I can tell.

Re: Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

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Post by simonpantzare »

I got interested in building something like this when I saw Docker issue 410[1]. If my understanding is correct Mesos uses Zookeeper to keep a Mesos master available. Zab, Zookeeper's distributed consensus algorithm, is similar to Raft which has a popular Go implementation[2] written by Ben Johnson. Perhaps Flynn agents can use this implementation.

1. https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/410

2. https://github.com/benbjohnson/go-raft

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