Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

Post by ddollar » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 1:27 AM UTC

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Absolutely! You can decide not to use a front-end load balancer. We have one user using Convox to spin up large worker pools on AWS. We also have plans on our roadmap to integrate with internal (inside the VPC only) ELBs for internal APIs and things of that nature.

> We also have plans on our roadmap to integrate with internal (inside the VPC only) ELBs for internal APIs and things of that nature. This is what I'm getting at. Also just saw the issue pertaining to HIPAA, which probably requires the same thing. Apps deployed on Empire apparently are only available inside the VPC unless a domain name is added, it doesn't actually work like that (when I deployed the Empire stack al…

Post by ddollar » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 1:31 AM UTC

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Unless it has changed since I last look Dokku only runs on a single server. 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.

Thanks for the reply, Im starting a project with dokku right now but its giving me trouble so I might switch over

Post by ddollar » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 1:35 AM UTC

doomspork wrote: post #34

This is really great! I'm interested in trying this out for our products in place of OpsWork. The documentations says "by default provisions an Elastic Load Balancer and 3 t2.small instances", is it possible to change the number/size of servers dynamically?

Post by ddollar » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 1:41 AM UTC

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This was recently added by a contributor! https://github.com/convox/cli/pull/48 You can update an existing cluster using something like `convox system scale --count 5 --type c4.xlarge` from the CLI. If you change the instance type your cluster will be rolled one at a time with no downtime.

That's great. Is it possible to add additional servers after installation? I looked into the CLI project but I haven't found anything yet, the scale option appears to be for processes not servers.

Post by mwmanning » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 1:54 AM UTC

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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…

This looks like a really great idea. Does Convox provide a convenient way to set up SSL for custom domains? The custom domains page ( https://docs.convox.com/docs/custom-domains ) didn't say much about it, but I may just be looking in the wrong place.