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Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by mwmanning »

ejholmes wrote: post #49
benley wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 soo…

Thanks Eric!

+1 Check out Convox and Empire. See which one works best for you.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by ejholmes »

sjtgraham wrote: post #23
ddollar wrote: post #15

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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…

Hey! Creator of Empire here. The demo stack we provide isn't suitable for production use as you found out already. Empire can definitely be deployed in a production ready manor where you can have internal and external services, which is how we have it setup at Remind. The docs are a little lacking right now unfortunately, but we'll be improving this in the future.

We actually have a production ready example stack using our stack provisioning tool called stacker: https://github.com/remind101/stacker/pull/43.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by kevinSuttle »

mwmanning wrote: post #50
boundlessdreamz wrote: post #48

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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.

What about IBM Bluemix?

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by dxhdr »

Cool product! This is fairly unrelated but since you've open-sourced your code (thanks!) I was just browsing around the 'cli' project and saw heaps of the following:

  if err != nil {
      stdcli.Error(err)
      return
  }
Is this idiomatic Go? It's just sprinkled everywhere and makes it hard to follow logic at a glance.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by mwmanning »

dxhdr wrote: post #54

Cool product! This is fairly unrelated but since you've open-sourced your code (thanks!) I was just browsing around the 'cli' project and saw heaps of the following: if err != nil { stdcli.Error(err) return } Is this idiomatic Go? It's just sprinkled everywhere and makes it hard to follow logic at a glance.

Explicit error handling is part of Go. It's pretty common to see lots of conditionals in a Go codebase.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by pscanf »

ddollar wrote: post #3

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…

Looks awesome! It might be just what we need for a project we're working on at my company. :-)

Do you perhaps have a writeup or something about the convox architecture? (Which AWS services it uses, how etc)

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by mwmanning »

pscanf wrote: post #57
ddollar wrote: post #3

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…

Looks awesome! It might be just what we need for a project we're working on at my company. :-) Do you perhaps have a writeup or something about the convox architecture? (Which AWS services it uses, how etc)

We don't yet, unfortunately, but we will add one soon.

If you'd like to see for yourself you can install it and then check the Resources tab on your CloudFormation page in the AWS web console to inspect everything it created.

https://docs.convox.com/docs/getting-started-with-convox

You can uninstall when you're done to avoid paying for the AWS resources if you're not ready to use it yet.

https://docs.convox.com/docs/uninstall-convox

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