Awsbox: A DiY PaaS for Node.JS

smanuel wrote: post #3

Looks like a great start, that's sth I've been waiting for a long time. It would be great if it supports adding more instances (dynos?), balanced through ELB. And... worker instances. And... Some configuration management. The potential is huge!

For what it's worth, there is a complementary (early stage) project a colleague of mine is working on where the idea is to let you leverage cloud formation from the command line and get closer to what you're talking about (deployment of a more complex infrastructure rather than just a single instance):

https://github.com/mozilla/awsboxen

Re: Awsbox: A DiY PaaS for Node.JS

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Post by fizx » Tue, May 21, 2013, 9:03 PM UTC

I'm really excited about the idea of building a generic DiY PaaS out of docker (for container management), mesos/chronos (for scheduling and allocation), and cloudformation (for auto-scaling and bootstrapping the cluster). I don't really want to do this as a business, but I think it could exist and be really nice.

Some install notes for mesos, chronos, docker on EC2: https://gist.github.com/fizx/b50319b6576773a0841a. If anyone wants to hack around with me on this, my email's in my profile.

Re: Awsbox: A DiY PaaS for Node.JS

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Post by contrahax » Tue, May 21, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC

smanuel wrote: post #3

Looks like a great start, that's sth I've been waiting for a long time. It would be great if it supports adding more instances (dynos?), balanced through ELB. And... worker instances. And... Some configuration management. The potential is huge!

Why not just EBS at that point?

Re: Awsbox: A DiY PaaS for Node.JS

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Post by ericmoritz » Tue, May 21, 2013, 9:18 PM UTC

fizx wrote: post #5

I'm really excited about the idea of building a generic DiY PaaS out of docker (for container management), mesos/chronos (for scheduling and allocation), and cloudformation (for auto-scaling and bootstrapping the cluster). I don't really want to do this as a business, but I think it could exist and be really nice. Some install notes for mesos, chronos, docker on EC2: https://gist.github.com/fizx/b50319b6576773a0841a…

This is a fantasy of mine as well. A generic opensource PaaS would be awesome. Now if I just had the ambition... It is quite an undertaking.

Re: Awsbox: A DiY PaaS for Node.JS

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Post by canthonytucci » Tue, May 21, 2013, 9:26 PM UTC

contrahax wrote: post #6

smanuel wrote: post #3

Looks like a great start, that's sth I've been waiting for a long time. It would be great if it supports adding more instances (dynos?), balanced through ELB. And... worker instances. And... Some configuration management. The potential is huge!

Why not just EBS at that point?

Could you expand?

Re: Awsbox: A DiY PaaS for Node.JS

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Post by lloydhilaiel » Tue, May 21, 2013, 9:39 PM UTC

contrahax wrote: post #6

smanuel wrote: post #3

Looks like a great start, that's sth I've been waiting for a long time. It would be great if it supports adding more instances (dynos?), balanced through ELB. And... worker instances. And... Some configuration management. The potential is huge!

Why not just EBS at that point?

Ack! Acronym collision! EBS is Elastic Beanstalk, or Elastic Block Store?

If the former, it's in my opinion a question of what you're looking for. Here's my best response: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/introducing-awsbox-the-diy...

Re: Awsbox: A DiY PaaS for Node.JS

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Post by jrydberg » Tue, May 21, 2013, 9:46 PM UTC

fizx wrote: post #5

I'm really excited about the idea of building a generic DiY PaaS out of docker (for container management), mesos/chronos (for scheduling and allocation), and cloudformation (for auto-scaling and bootstrapping the cluster). I don't really want to do this as a business, but I think it could exist and be really nice. Some install notes for mesos, chronos, docker on EC2: https://gist.github.com/fizx/b50319b6576773a0841a…

I've started working on something along those lines: http://gilliam.github.io/ . Currently using LXC, but adapting to docker is quite easy since "VMs" are provisioned and launched via shell scripts.