What does it take it to adapt Convox to be installed on a baremetal server like Hetzner?
Can I rent 2-3 servers at Hetzner and have a small cloud of sorts?
Or is that not something that is suggested to be done?
Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
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#102I would like to use Convox to spawn several instances of a Java app in order to benchmark Java messaging lib within the VPC (no ELB needed). Is Convox suitable for such use case?
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#103I would like to use Convox to spawn several instances of a Java app in order to benchmark Java messaging lib within the VPC (no ELB needed). Is Convox suitable for such use case?
Absolutely! We have a few people using Convox to run and scale workers without a web app.
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#104Good 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 i…
You could definitely do this. Create one master app and then have it connect back to ECS to spawn more apps.
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#105What does it take it to adapt Convox to be installed on a baremetal server like Hetzner? Can I rent 2-3 servers at Hetzner and have a small cloud of sorts? Or is that not something that is suggested to be done?
It may be possible but it would take a substantial amount of work and I wouldn't recommend it. Convox achieves much of its stability and scalability from relying on hosted a AWS services.
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#106Hello! 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…
Could you tell me in which way it it different than elastic beanstalk? Ease of use?
Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
#107Hello! 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…
Is there likely to be support for other clouds in the future? Amazon is great and you're far cheaper than Heroku itself but I'd love to throw this on DigitalOcean or Vultr.
Vultr's website looks... interesting. And their control panel is also... interesting. BUT.
I've been very impressed by the performance of my nodes.
Tops DigitalOcean easily. I don't have any hard numbers (I can provide some if people would like) but with the performance and number of locations they provide it's hard to beat.
$50 credits for two months: http://vultr.com/freetrial
Vultr also offers a "dedicated cloud" which I think is just dedicated resources — similar to RunAbove (http://www.runabove.com)
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#108Cool 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.
Not sure how much it applies here as I haven't looked at the code, but the Golang blog has a good article that talks about how to "Simplify repetitive error handling"[1].
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#109awesome!
Thank you!
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#110How does this compare to Cloud Foundry? Do they solve different problems and therefore should not be compared directly?
I can (and will) google this myself in an effort to triangulate and understand but I figure it would be valuable to hear from people who are more informed and experienced.