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Apollo – An Extensible Docker-Based Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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Re: Apollo – An Extensible Docker-Based Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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Post by iav »

zoom6628 wrote: post #17
agloeregrets wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And let’s not forget the well-liked iOS Reddit client as well. Or the Greek god Or the moon missions. Or Counter Culture’s Light Roast beans. Basically the name is a bit tired and few actually have a reason to call it that. (Apollo the Reddit client to browse the world of Reddit which has an alien as it’s avatar almost makes sense.)

or the premium workstation of the 80s.

Or the publicly traded private equity / credit investor?

Or the parent company of University of Phoenix Online?

PS the private equity firm actually owns the education company since 2016... think about that confusion

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Post by yowlingcat »

mabbo wrote: post #22

Making this all the more confusing, the deployment tool most used inside Amazon is an internal tool called "Apollo". (We mostly hate it.) I checked - the primary author of this tool has never worked there.

It's painful. Many a day I thought of purchasing a box of oranges to pelt at the moon. In futility? Yes. Just like Apollo.

Our team awaited the promised tangerines with hope. And yet they never arrived.

Re: Apollo – An Extensible Docker-Based Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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Post by yowlingcat »

axbytg wrote: post #15
randtrain34 wrote: post #9

This seems very similar in concept to https://caprover.com/

Looks like the main difference is docker compose compatibility but admittedly I have more reading to do. Still tho that is a good difference! I have multiple caprover nodes in prod for hobby stuff so absolutely not knocking it.

Docker Compose compatibility is major. I just want a seamless Heroku like experience but with Docker Compose. Is that too much to ask?

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Post by sdesol »

alpb wrote: post #5

Despite the nice packaging, it appears to be a single-person maintained project. There are quite a few reasons why no opinionated PaaS built on Docker Swarm or Kubernetes (maybe surprisingly) came even close to being a popular choice in the market. Usually, anyone serious who's going to bet on a PaaS that runs their stack will also need a serious corporate entity (i.e. software vendor) supporting the tools in case th…

It definitely is a single person maintained project (he's responsible for 99% of the code churn)...not that there is anything wrong with that. Here's a breakdown of his contributions:

https://imgur.com/E8tWj3P

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Post by lmeyerov »

alpb wrote: post #5

Despite the nice packaging, it appears to be a single-person maintained project. There are quite a few reasons why no opinionated PaaS built on Docker Swarm or Kubernetes (maybe surprisingly) came even close to being a popular choice in the market. Usually, anyone serious who's going to bet on a PaaS that runs their stack will also need a serious corporate entity (i.e. software vendor) supporting the tools in case th…

Your competing product's org has a bad track record here of canceling new tools, so from that perspective, the small, neutral, and fully open solution seems safer choice given the two. I'd reconsider barking up this tree.

More objectively: It's new, production architects of "serious" code shouldn't depend on either. However, one of them represents a lot of "boring" stacks, so if a team is comfortable forking vs NIH'ing, this may be closer to "serious" production-worthy.

The idea is pretty cool IMO - we were looking at Replicated years ago, and if they had gone open like this, we would have considered them more seriously.

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Post by joshstrange »

gavinray wrote: post #11

This looks incredible! Has some serious offerings against the current Self-Hosted PaaS scene, hope I can check it out over the weekend. I have used Dokku[0] in production, and played with CapRover[1] on hobby projects. Flynn was like a better Dokku, before development died.[2] CapRover is a great experience, and it's not a toy IMO. It nails the role of "I want to press a button and have a self-hosted Heroku, with a n…

Dokku user and now CapRover user. I have to say it's my favorite for spinning up a new project. I don't know if I'd use CapRover for anything production just yet but I love it for development. For me it's the perfect "stick this server, client, DB combo on a server, add HTTPS, and don't make me think about it".

I feel confident that anything I throw on CapRover I could move to "more production-level" setup easily if I wanted; using managed db's, containers, block storage etc on AWS/Google/etc. Like, if I can get it working in CapRover I know I can run it anywhere and CapRover makes it super easy to get my idea hosted and running "in the cloud" quickly. I don't know why but seeing my project run full-time, verses just when I'm developing locally, is a huge motivator for me so CapRover is perfect for me in the same way I use Caddy for my local services. I want fast, safe, and easy with the knowledge I can scale up with some work in the future but I don't need it for day 1.

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Post by an_opabinia »

alpb wrote: post #5

Despite the nice packaging, it appears to be a single-person maintained project. There are quite a few reasons why no opinionated PaaS built on Docker Swarm or Kubernetes (maybe surprisingly) came even close to being a popular choice in the market. Usually, anyone serious who's going to bet on a PaaS that runs their stack will also need a serious corporate entity (i.e. software vendor) supporting the tools in case th…

Considering how many choices this guy has made that are identical to mine, trying to build very different applications, I’d say he’s onto something.

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Post by gabereiser »

iav wrote: post #21
zoom6628 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or the premium workstation of the 80s.

Or the publicly traded private equity / credit investor? Or the parent company of University of Phoenix Online? PS the private equity firm actually owns the education company since 2016... think about that confusion

Or Adama from BSG?

Or the short track olympic skater from US?

Or Apollo.io for structured sales data?

Or are we talking about Adaptive Patient-Oriented Longitudinal Learning and Optimization?

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