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Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
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#42Anathem reference?
We have a winner :)
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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.
As one of the dokku maintainers, I wholeheartedly agree with ddollar. Convox seems extremely interesting to me, since our goal is a single-server heroku experience. I personally would never be able use Dokku in production exactly because of this, but its quite good for throw-away sites, as a test-bed for side projects, etc. Good work ddollar. I quickly looked at the github repos and once I saw your name attached, I k…
David had to go AFK, but thanks, on his behalf. I'll make sure he sees this :)
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#44Hello! 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…
@ddollar: This is Michael from Livecoding.tv
Do you want to demo Convox live on Livecoding.tv?
Would be cool to see this in action and ask questions
My email is michael@livecoding.tv
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#45Hello! 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…
@ddollar: This is Michael from Livecoding.tv Do you want to demo Convox live on Livecoding.tv? Would be cool to see this in action and ask questions My email is michael@livecoding.tv
Hey Michael that sounds great. Sending you an email now.
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#46Hello! 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…
Sorry I downvoted by mistake... I was trying to upvote so quickly that I pressed the wrong button. I love what you have built! Definitely spending the rest of the weekend playing with this...
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#47Hello! 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…
Sorry I downvoted by mistake... I was trying to upvote so quickly that I pressed the wrong button. I love what you have built! Definitely spending the rest of the weekend playing with this...
Haha :)
We're excited about it, too. Hit us up via the www.convox.com Intercom button or support@convox.com if you have any questions.
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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.
How does Convox compare to Empire? I see a bunch of similarities (good use of AWS features in particular), and they both look pretty great. (Empire: https://github.com/remind101/empire , http://engineering.remind.com/introducing-empire/ )
Creator of Empire here. Empire and Convox are kinda like brothers and sisters, both really similar in implementation and philosophy. There's a couple of subtle differences, like how Empire expects that you've already built a Docker image somehow, whereas Convox can just take some code and do it for you (hosts it's own docker registry). Convox also supports streaming logs, which is pretty awesome (although, coming soon to Empire too :)). Convox is a little more reliant on AWS, whereas Empire was designed to be able to work with other backends like Kubernetes for example (not implemented yet). I would say, use which ever one best suites your needs, they're both great, and like David said, we talk a lot and share ideas back and forth.
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We are considering other vendors but currently focused on AWS. What vendors would you like to see?
Google Cloud
Thanks for the input. Google's offerings are really picking up steam. We've been in touch with Google and are excited about expanding onto their infrastructure in the future.