Wouldn't using talos be better than having to run this on custom managed ubuntu servers?
why would that be?
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#132I love the verbiage. When I see a folder in the source named "dream", then files named "Universe" and "multiverse", it pulls me in :). I also love the single binary in Go. That's on my todo list for a few things. Well done!
thanks!
dream allows you to run tau locally and even write E2E unit tests.
we always try to have cool names :)
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#133Is the advantage of this, that you only have to keep the one binary up to date, in contrast to e.g. a host with docker-compose and the containers therein?
yes. tau will take care of versioning your deployed code just like git does. internally even the registry is versioned using branches and commits.
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#134Am I wrong, or all this ends up doing is round-robin DNS, which is no good for a geographic CDN?
right now, that is true. Seer (the dns service) returns all nodes that register with it, regardless of location. That said, we're working in adding advanced logic there that will:
- take location into consideration
- allows the execution of wasm code (we call smartops) to define custom logic
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#135Would this be a good combo to combine with Hetzner server auctions, or just too much trouble ? or even with todays connections having a server at home ? any success stories ?
yes. the cool thing is with tau servers can be in different locations.
looking at https://www.hetzner.com/sb/:
- you can build a beefy cloud for less than €150/mo!
- plus you can run LLM inference (check https://github.com/ollama-cloud) for another €150/mo per node
not bad!
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#137I've been reading through the docs and skipping through the one recentish YouTube tutorial trying to make sense of what this actually is. While it seems like an impressive thing for what appears to be a one-man-project, the almost complete lack of documentation makes it feel like a bit of a hard no in the current state. There seems to be a history of it being heavily linked to Web3 things that also feels weird. Some…
Great feedback. We're working on some of these.
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#138Self-hosted platform as a service?! Isn't the whole point of platforms as a service (from the customer perspective) that you don't need to do the hassle of self hosting. There are pros and cons to using an external service and to self hosting. And just throwing all these words at me together makes me feel like there isn't a coherent mental model of what this is trying to be, or if there is it isn't clearly communicat…
Replying just to “isn't a coherent mental model”: I just took a deep dive into the documentation- which is comprehensive - and I feel the complete opposite; the author has a very well refined mental model of a PaaS and has created a modularized source-code expression of that model that I found very interesting. The CI module is called “patrick”, which gave me a chuckle. You have some good feedback in your post, but I…
I agree, the CI module name is not the best. While whiteboarding the concept with the team, this http://en.spongepedia.org/index.php?title=Hooky_%28Episode%2... episode from sponge bob found it way to the discussion so we called it `patrick`.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before Coolify came CapRover and dokku. My toy server (64ram, ryzen 5600G 60tb HDD, 4tb NVMe) is currently running fedora/caprover, though I've been considering just putting truenas scale on it, as it added custom deployments as well...
Love Caprover. Using this on production to host many docker containers.
Same. I’ve contributed several app templates. It’s not terribly refined, and the creator took some flack for his approach to split licensing. But they are very responsive, and the platform is quite solid and easy to secure and adapt.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
CapRover has a UI to install new apps or configure existing ones.
CapRover set up was kind of annoying last I used it.
It’s one Docker command and an NPM script. Not sure where you got hung up, but I’ve spun up several with simple Bash scripts. Glad you found something that works at any rate.