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This looks amazing! Thanks for making/releasing this as open source.
Hello! 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…
Hello! 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?
We also have plans on our roadmap to integrate with internal (inside the VPC only) ELBs for internal APIs and things of that nature.
Sounds 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.
(Empire: https://github.com/remind101/empire, http://engineering.remind.com/introducing-empire/)
How is this different than Dokku?
The other major difference is that software like Dokku is trying to run anywhere. Because we are only trying to run on AWS we do not need to build custom schedulers, load balancers, routers, etc. We believe this will reduce your operational costs over time.
Hello! 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…
Is there likely to be support for other clouds in the future? Amazon is great and you're far cheaper than Heroku itself but I'd love to throw this on DigitalOcean or Vultr.