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You're right. But it's complex because this is an irreducibly complex problem space. Making distributed systems Just Work can't be made simpler. So there are t
by jacques_chester 11y ago
You're right. But it's complex because this is an irreducibly complex problem space. Making distributed systems Just Work can't be made simpler.
So there are two alternatives: first is to use a hosted CF. There are several. My company has one in Pivotal Web Services. IBM BlueMix is a Cloud Foundry instance. There are others around.
The second alternative is MicroPCF. It's a new project specifically intended to allow you to run a full CF on your laptop.
https://github.com/pivotal-cf/micropcf https://github.com/pivotal-cf/micropcf
- icebraining 11y agoYou're right. But it's complex because this is an irreducibly complex problem space. Making distributed systems Just Work can't be made simpler. Yeah, but that's my point: I want a PaaS for the ease of deployment and upgrade, but I don't actually need a distributed system; all our servers work isolated from each other, only receiving occasional commands from our office. Unfortunately, it seems I have to choose between barebones deployment helpers like Dokku and systems designed to deploy Twitter and Whatsapp. We're more like WPEngine - where's the PaaS for them? I'll look into MicroPCF, but is it production-ready? Sounds too focused to the development phase.
- jacques_chester 11y agoTo repurpose an old joke: You might not believe in the problems of distributed systems, but they believe in you. It sounds like your problem is more IAASy. For which you might tinker with BOSH. Or if you just need to run remote commands, there are a lot of systems that'll piggyback on SSH for you.