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by ddollar 10y ago
If you're looking for the simplicity of Heroku but want to run on raw AWS check out Convox. It's open source and free to try. https://convox.com Disclosure: I'm one of the cofounders
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Three Generations of AWS(infoq.com)
7 points by ddollar 10y ago|0 comments
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by ddollar 10y ago
We've got some changes coming along these lines. Looks like we might also be able to use CloudFront for hostname routing.
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by ddollar 10y ago
This is a really great point. So far our strategy for this has been to build containers that mock various AWS services locally. This approach is still a bit experimental but please feel free to check out these repos: https://gith
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by ddollar 10y ago
We picked Rack because we like the conceptual analogy. The naming conflict is unfortunate but there are a limited set of good words available. We hope that context will make the meaning clear. Thank you for commenting :)
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by ddollar 10y ago
That's for the default of t2.small
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by ddollar 10y ago
ECS is incredibly powerful but definitely a lower-level primitive. We look at it sort of like a Kubernetes that we don't have to run for ourselves. Scale has been great. We have customers running hundreds of containers on a single app
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by ddollar 10y ago
I've noticed this as well. It seems like the docker.local hostname can sometimes take a long time to resolve. If I resolve that hostname and visit the IP directly it generally works great. Definitely check out the beta forums as most o
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by ddollar 11y ago
One of the founders of Convox here. Happy to answer any questions about Convox or deploying to AWS in general.
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Convox Rack 0.7: Papertrail and SSL(convox.github.io)
17 points by ddollar 11y ago|1 comments
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by ddollar 11y ago
If you're using ECS to manage your clusters on AWS take a look at Convox. We're building an open source platform that makes building, versioning, and deploying code to AWS via ECS incredibly easy. https://convox.com
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by ddollar 11y ago
Absolutely! Our plan is to release support for the container registry as soon as it's generally available.
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Convox Rack 0.6: One-Off Processes, Visibility, and Stability(convox.com)
22 points by ddollar 11y ago|3 comments
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Using Weave and Scope with Convox(blog.weave.works)
4 points by ddollar 11y ago|0 comments
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Convox 0.5: Multi-Region VPCs, Process Scaling, and Databases(blog.convox.com)
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Convox (YC S15) Wants to Make AWS as Easy as Heroku(venturebeat.com)
30 points by ddollar 11y ago|3 comments
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by ddollar 11y ago
It may be possible but it would take a substantial amount of work and I wouldn't recommend it. Convox achieves much of its stability and scalability from relying on hosted a AWS services.
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by ddollar 11y ago
You could definitely do this. Create one master app and then have it connect back to ECS to spawn more apps.
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by ddollar 11y ago
Absolutely! We have a few people using Convox to run and scale workers without a web app.
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by ddollar 11y ago
Yes! We have formed a business behind convox and current have a small team working on it full time. We are very confident that it will hit 1.0. Thanks for your interest :)
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by ddollar 11y ago
Thanks for the interest :) We have been trying to figure out the best way to describe our platform and "private cloud" seems the closest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Private_cloud
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by ddollar 11y ago
Woops, I ninja-edited my comment above before I saw this. Yes you can do this, see the CLI command above.
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by ddollar 11y ago
This was recently added by a contributor! https://github.com/convox/cli/pull/48 You can update an existing cluster using something like `convox system scale --count 5 --type c4.xlarge` from the CLI. If you ch
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by ddollar 11y ago
Let us know if there's any way we can help. You can reach me at david@convox.com
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by ddollar 11y ago
Let us know if there's anything we can do to help! I'm david@convox.com
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by ddollar 11y ago
That's very kind of you to say :) Currently the EC2 instances in your Convox installation all have public IP addresses but this is currently being addressed https://github.com/convox/kernel/issues/92
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by ddollar 11y ago
We are considering other vendors but currently focused on AWS. What vendors would you like to see?
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by ddollar 11y ago
Currently we only offer Convox the open-source platform :) In the future we are considering paid support and other monetization strategies but the base platform itself will always be open-source and available for you to do with as you pleas
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by ddollar 11y ago
Yes, we have people using this in production, including ourselves! Most of the scale right now is on the small-to-moderate end but once your application is up and running you're really only limited by how much AWS you want to pay for :
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by ddollar 11y ago
Empire is awesome, we think it's a great project. We have been swapping notes with the folks working on it. The primary difference is that Convox is backed by a company for which this is our product and has a full-time team dedicated t

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