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cardmagicon Deis 0.9.0 – Dockerfiles, Domains, and HA Routing

I just interviewed Deis CTO Gabriel Monroy about Deis and how it works with CoreOS and how it differs from Flynn and Dokku. Great guy, great team, and awesome project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5EI16DG1sg

cardmagicon Etcd – The Road to 1.0

It is not a lot of work to get started, here is a short and simple tutorial that goes from nothing to a full running app with a database on CoreOS: http://www.centurylinklabs.com/building-your-first-app-on-co...

cardmagicon Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed

There are new tools[1] being built around Docker that make it viable to easily move your apps out of Heroku and onto any system running Docker including DigitalOcean, GCE, AWS, etc.

When you combine Docker, buildpacks, and CoreOS[2], you get a scalable and flexible platform that you can run anywhere. It has taken people a long time to combine the simplicity of Heroku with the flexibility of bare metal, but the open source guys have finally put all the building blocks together.

[1] https://github.com/CenturyLinkLabs/building/

[2] http://www.centurylinklabs.com/building-your-first-app-on-co...

cardmagicon Peas: Ruby-based Docker PaaS

You can basically do this with the "building" gem: https://github.com/CenturyLinkLabs/building

It uses Heroku buildpacks to build self-contained containers with all your dependencies with one command: building containername

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From https://coreos.com: CoreOS enables warehouse-scale computing on top of a minimal, modern operating system. The strategies and architectures that form the building blocks of CoreOS have been proven at companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter. We've implemented them correctly so you don't have to endure the slow, learn-as-you-go infrastructure building process.

cardmagicon Incubators are Bullshit

The point of the post was that many incubators are actively encouraging first time startup founders who don't know any better to do bullshit. The point is that in many cases, first time founders are better off spending their time NOT applying for incubators or doing incubators because then at least they won't be encouraged to do bullshit.

There are obviously exceptions (YC is one of them), however the point of this article is to point out the rampant bait-and-switch that has emerged from me-too incubators.

cardmagicon Incubators are Bullshit

YES! YES YES YES! You talk like a true craftsman founder.

So many founders seem to think they have to do incubators because it is what is done. They treat it like traction. And they are completely indiscriminate. "I just got into the podunk incubator! #win #retire #done"

cardmagicon Incubators are Bullshit

I agree Paul: YC is the only incubator I would explicitly exclude from this tirade. In fact, I call out YC in section 4 as having incubated companies I would love to be like.

cardmagicon Incubators are Bullshit

The study referenced in Wikipedia is from 1997, 8 years before Y-combinator which is the first of the class of incubators I talk about in my blog post. I also think the studies are about a different kind of business than the startups discussed in my blog. More along the lines of McDonalds franchises than Facebooks.

However you do bring up a valid point: my blog is just my opinion and worth just about as much as you pay for it. :)

cardmagicon Incubators are Bullshit

Sorry for the downtime, just upgraded my server for the load

cardmagicon Fig – Fast, isolated development environments using Docker

Fig is awesome, it lets you create a simple fig.yml that can specify multi-container apps. I recently built a fig2coreos adapter that takes the fig.yml as input and outputs the coreos systemd configuration files.

[1] https://github.com/centurylinklabs/fig2coreos

[2] http://www.centurylinklabs.com/building-complex-apps-for-doc...

cardmagicon Top Startups Built on Docker

What's your startup?

cardmagicon Top Startups Built on Docker

I think Quay is more like GitHub for Docker, Shippable is more CI/CD for Docker, and the Memcached service is definitely not a PaaS. Along with the book, 4/10 of them are not like a PaaS for Docker.

cardmagicon Show HN: Shippable - Continuous Integration service using Docker containers

This looks amazing! Combine this with StackDock and it would be a totally killer combination.

When you look at something like what eBay is doing with Docker (http://www.slideshare.net/dotCloud/docker-open-stack-austin-...) this kind of service makes total sense. Kudos!

cardmagicon CTL-C: Re-imagined IaaS with Docker Containers

Cloud Foundry will be part of CTL-C

cardmagicon CTL-C: Re-imagined IaaS with Docker Containers

We are not trying to hide these fact, it is just to let people know that this is a legitimate effort from legitimate people with more backing than a vaporware startup has. This is not AppFog though, which is why we do not feature these points prominently.

cardmagicon CTL-C: Re-imagined IaaS with Docker Containers

Email sent

cardmagicon CTL-C: Re-imagined IaaS with Docker Containers

You will be able to pick where to host your containers and they can talk to each other even if they are on different VMs, there will be an API with SDKs that will make app level topology layouts available to all containers and VMs

cardmagicon AppFog Now Part of Savvis Cloud

Hi, this is Lucas, founder and CEO of AppFog.

I would not have picked CenturyLink if they didn't intend to add resources and accelerate us. I am thrilled about this combination, there is so much cool stuff CenturyLink can do with us, it is not even funny. Expect a lot of fun announcements in the near future.

cardmagicon AppFog Now Part of Savvis Cloud

Hi, this is Lucas, founder and CEO of AppFog. Just wanted to address this up front.

CenturyLink is committed to taking our PaaS offering to the next level through significant investments. AppFog is going to evolve rapidly, both for the public and private cloud. For our public cloud developers, this means more infrastructure options, increased levels of support, and accelerated launches of new features that our community has been asking for. We will soon be adding high-speed Savvis infrastructures options for deploying apps, including paid-only infrastructures with better reliability and performance. And for our private cloud developers within enterprises, we will soon be delivering AppFog-in-a-Box, a self-service private PaaS offering baked into Savvis’s cloud offering, a Gartner #1 Leader.

We have found a great partner in CenturyLink. CenturyLink is the 3rd largest telco in the United States, providing fiber networks to business around the world. Savvis, CenturyLink’s IaaS, is a great complement to AppFog so that as you scale your applications past the boundaries of AppFog, you can start adding high-speed IaaS resources quickly and easily.

CenturyLink is going to be an accelerant for us and I am proud to prove you wrong. :)

cardmagicon PHP Fog to be discontinued on December 21st

AppFog is just as simple and way more powerful too.

cardmagicon PHP Fog to be discontinued on December 21st

John,

I am so sorry for the inconvenience, we are working on some tools to make the process easier, but for now here is a tutorial:

http://blog.phpfog.com/2012/11/12/migrating-your-php-apps-fr...

cardmagicon PHP Fog to be discontinued on December 21st

AppFog is PHP Fog 2.0, it does PHP and has way more functionality

cardmagicon Nodester acquired by AppFog

AppFog did one better, one low price across any infrastructure, even in some cases lower than using the IaaS directly

cardmagicon AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Did For EMail

A thousand words, or 30 seconds start to finish of deploying a Ruby app yourself on AppFog - https://console.appfog.com/signup

cardmagicon AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Did For EMail

AppFog is a PaaS built on various IaaS virtualization platforms (AWS, Rackspace, Azure, etc.), not a VPS.

cardmagicon AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Did For EMail

https://console.appfog.com/pricing

2GB RAM FREE | 4GB RAM $100/month | 16GB RAM $380/month | 32GB RAM $720/month | More if you contact AppFog

Scaling your app is free, choosing multiple infrastructures is free, custom domains are free, fastest available servers in the infrastructures

cardmagicon Ask HN: Best setups to avoid availability outages on AWS

Try a multi-infrastructure PaaS like http://appfog.com/

cardmagicon Heroku is down again

Like http://appfog.com/ has?

cardmagicon DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model

Except Gmail isn't just free for drafting emails, it is free when you send them to real people too.