Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
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Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#2Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976938
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#3Hello! I'm part of the Convox core team and happy to answer any questions.
Convox is an app deployment platform that you can install into your own AWS account. It uses ECS, ELB, Kinesis, and many other great AWS services under the hood but automates it all away to give you a deployment experience even easier than Heroku.
Convox uses Docker under the hood so if you want to customize anything (distro, dependencies, etc) you can simply add a Dockerfile to your project.
Convox is entirely open source. Check it out at https://github.com/convox
To get started with our installer go to: http://docs.convox.com/docs/getting-started-with-convox
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#4Super awesome. I can't wait to start porting some of my heroku apps over to aws using convox.
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#5This looks amazing! Thanks for making/releasing this as open source.
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#6Sounds like Deis:
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#7Sounds like Deis: - http://deis.com/ - https://github.com/deis/deis
It is similar to Deis in goals but it differs substantially in implementation. Because Convox runs on AWS we can rely on stable and scalable services only available on that platform such as ELB and DynamoDB. Deis uses its own internal Postgres and implements a custom load balancer, scheduler, etc. We believe using the hosted services will help you keep your operational costs down over time.
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#8How is this different than Dokku?
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#9Hello! I'm part of the Convox core team and happy to answer any questions. Convox is an app deployment platform that you can install into your own AWS account. It uses ECS, ELB, Kinesis, and many other great AWS services under the hood but automates it all away to give you a deployment experience even easier than Heroku. Convox uses Docker under the hood so if you want to customize anything (distro, dependencies, etc…
Can Convox do non-internet-facing services? i.e. private internal services not routable from outside the VPC?
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#10Hello! I'm part of the Convox core team and happy to answer any questions. Convox is an app deployment platform that you can install into your own AWS account. It uses ECS, ELB, Kinesis, and many other great AWS services under the hood but automates it all away to give you a deployment experience even easier than Heroku. Convox uses Docker under the hood so if you want to customize anything (distro, dependencies, etc…
Looks interesting! How is ECS working out so far for you?
And what's your minimum per-application cost for single-container Docker web app with SSL?