Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by edbyrne » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 6:33 PM UTC

Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5
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Post by dylanz » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 6:44 PM UTC

Very cool, and I was waiting for something like this to be built out. Are you planning on having a command line tool to control your deployments?

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Post by jaegerpicker » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 6:47 PM UTC

This is pretty awesome. An api to automate deployments/management/monitoring would completely rock too.

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Post by zmitri » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 6:52 PM UTC

dylanz wrote: post #2

Very cool, and I was waiting for something like this to be built out. Are you planning on having a command line tool to control your deployments?

I use a similar service called Orchard that has a "heroku-like" command line wrapper around the docker client. It's quite nice https://github.com/orchardup/orchard-client

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Post by knotty66 » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 6:55 PM UTC

Nice. Looking forward to seeing how this and all the other Docker based PAAS ecosystems like Flynn, Deis, Tsuru, Shipbuilder, CoreOS etc pan out.

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Post by susi22 » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

Q: Do people have root on the containers?

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Post by joevandyk » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 7:03 PM UTC

susi22 wrote: post #6

Q: Do people have root on the containers?

Yes.

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Post by gabrtv » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 7:15 PM UTC

knotty66 wrote: post #5

Nice. Looking forward to seeing how this and all the other Docker based PAAS ecosystems like Flynn, Deis, Tsuru, Shipbuilder, CoreOS etc pan out.

I agree this looks very cool. As far as http://deis.io/ is concerned, we're focused more on the "operate your own PaaS" capability, whereas this seems to be a pure hosted service -- which is great for lots of use cases.

Best of luck guys!

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Post by kmfrk » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 7:16 PM UTC

"Docker-as-a-Service", simple, easy-to-understand pricing. Love it.

This is my favourite Docker offer so far. I've been looking for something to replace dotCloud's deprecated sandbox tier for just playing around, and it looks like this fits the bill.

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Post by esamatti » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 7:23 PM UTC

The big point of Docker for me is that I can build the container on my machine, run automated tests on it, play with it and then ship it to the production machines when I'm confident that it is working.

If you build the container on a service like this testing it is hard or in some cases even impossible. For example acceptance tests with Selenium.

Gemfile.lock and similar version binding tools help, but prebuild containers bring the deployment stability to whole new level and is the reason why I'm exited about Docker and containers in general.

Do they support prebuild containers?