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Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by pscanf »

mwmanning wrote: post #60
pscanf wrote: post #57

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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/…

Cool, thanks for the tip!

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by mwmanning »

intrasight wrote: post #58

Could someone familiar with Convox give us a brief answer to the question "how is this different from the myriad DevOps tools that Amazon provides for AWS?"

We're most familiar with OpsWorks. The main difference is simplicity. Convox doesn't require you to think much about infrastructure or write big JSON config files. We want the developer experience to be very app-focused like Heroku.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by mwmanning »

pscanf wrote: post #61
mwmanning wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/…

Cool, thanks for the tip!

You're welcome! Please contact us if you have more questions.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by mwmanning »

kevinSuttle wrote: post #53
mwmanning wrote: post #50

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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?

That one hasn't been on our radar, but we'll definitely check it out.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by doomspork »

ddollar wrote: post #37
doomspork wrote: post #36

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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.

Woops, I ninja-edited my comment above before I saw this. Yes you can do this, see the CLI command above.

Very cool, thanks so much for your hard work!

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by ejholmes »

bvanvugt wrote: post #14

Is anyone using this in production? If so, at what scale?

One of the great things about stuff like Convox and Empire is that, because they're built on existing stable technologies and utilize AWS managed services, you're basically asking if ELB, EC2 and ECS can scale. The most unstable component in all of this is probably Docker. In our experience running it in production at scale, it's faults have been pretty minor (things like push/pull being agonizingly slow) and failure modes get taken care of by ECS managing desired state well.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by doomspork »

rubiquity wrote: post #65

How is this a private cloud if it's running on AWS which is most certainly a public cloud? I don't mean to take away from the product but I find the messaging to be odd.

The title was changed. It previously said something along the lines of "Launch a private Heroku"

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by hibikir »

rubiquity wrote: post #65

How is this a private cloud if it's running on AWS which is most certainly a public cloud? I don't mean to take away from the product but I find the messaging to be odd.

My guess is that it's them playing slightly loose with the AWS term VPC: Virtual Private Cloud. My guess is that this is the way most people that have done work with AWS will understand their statement this way.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by mwmanning »

hibikir wrote: post #69
rubiquity wrote: post #65

How is this a private cloud if it's running on AWS which is most certainly a public cloud? I don't mean to take away from the product but I find the messaging to be odd.

My guess is that it's them playing slightly loose with the AWS term VPC: Virtual Private Cloud. My guess is that this is the way most people that have done work with AWS will understand their statement this way.

You're right. It's technically a virtual private cloud. We've found that nowadays VPC works for most people. The days of on-premises platforms are numbered.
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