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Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
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Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#92Hello! 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 project looks great! Is anybody working full-time on the project? Are there plans to commercialize any aspects of this? How confident are you that the project will get to "1.0".
Yes! We have formed a business behind convox and current have a small team working on it full time. We are very confident that it will hit 1.0. Thanks for your interest :)
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#93Hello! 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 project looks great! Is anybody working full-time on the project? Are there plans to commercialize any aspects of this? How confident are you that the project will get to "1.0".
Thanks! Yes right now we have a small team working on this full time. We do plan to commercialize it, but intend to always keep it open source.
We're super confident it will get to a more mature state. We have some resources to keep working on it ourselves, and we're seeing lots of interest and participation from the open source community as well.
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#94Just getting started here and wondering if there's a way to choose the region all this stuff is being installed to? Can apps be launched in specific regions? edit: Looks like it defaults to us-east-1. I'd much prefer to use Sydney due to the latency here in AU :)
Correct. It does default to us-east-1. The main reason is that we are using some fairly new AWS services that aren't launched in all regions, but we do want to and expect to expand to more regions.
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#95any plans to support stateful apps like Wordpress?
You could run Wordpress today, afaik. Anything that can run in a Docker container can run on on Convox. You'd just need to use some sort of hosted database service like Amazon RDS to persist your data.
edit: Just looked at Wordpress a little closer. I didn't realize it expects a persistent filesystem, which I guess is what you're asking about. Convox follows the 12factor.net philosophy of ephemeral filesystems, so you'd need to figure out a way to persist files to S3 or similar...
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#96Hello! 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…
How are backups handled?
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#97awesome!
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#98Hello! 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…
Will you be adding some comments or tests?
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The fact that Amazon offers Direct Connect shows that on-premises platform growth are certainly numbered but not the mere existence of them. Plenty of companies are still forcibly keeping their data in their own datacenters due to regulatory reasons despite desperately wanting to use third party providers. So until these regulations change (I'd bet it'll happen for PCI-DSS level 2+ before several federal ones unless FedRAMP supersedes them all) the largest possible users for AWS (and sadly, the most likely to benefit from it the most) are likely to be stuck operating stupidly expensive datacenters for pretty much no good reason besides making last-generation tech jobs.
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#100Good stuff! Looks very promising!
Haven't had a chance to take it for a trial spin yet, but I was wondering if there is anything in here for applications that have a limited lifespan? Working on a system right now that would have the need for a "central" application that would need to regularly launch subworker apps for a specific task (planning on running each sub app on it's own micro AWS instance) and then "kill it off" once the job was completed.