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That's for Managed Flynn. We're using the open source version, which is free: https://github.com/flynn/flynn https://github.com/flynn/flynn

newsat13 10y ago
And nothing for the support offered by the flynn team? I am also curious to find out what is the running cost for maintaining flynn. Is there one dedicated engineer minitoring the infra?
- Titanous 10y ago
  Our experience at Flynn is that there are a few common scenarios: - Small and side projects run well without supervision. - Existing ops teams can manage Flynn without much additional effort. - Medium sized teams that don't want an internal ops team pay us for Managed Flynn where we take over all ops-related responsibilities.
  - tracker1 10y ago
    For a small-mid sized company with an overworked dev manager, hiring out flynn for the cost of a Jr Systems Administrator sounds pretty reasonable.
- aclimatt 10y ago
  Yep, the Flynn team helped us out via IRC and were fantastic. Especially as we were still working on getting pre-1.0 running, it was great to work with an engineer directly through the bumps. Obviously they do offer paid support as well, which is great for recurring issues and operational assistance. We do have a dedicated engineer managing / monitoring our infrastructure. It's not a set-it-and-forget-it kind of thing, so if you don't have somebody to manage your infrastructure, the hosted version might be a better choice. The big cost savings win was for all of our /other/ engineers who now don't need to know anything about ops to get their apps running. Previously with Chef, everybody was responsible for writing recipes and setting up environments, but now we have a standard set of buildpacks that work with our apps, and when we need to transfer an app to a client (as we're a dev agency), we can set it up on Heroku and it should "just work".

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That's for Managed Flynn. We're using the open source version, which is free: https://github.com/flynn/flynn https://github.com/flynn/flynn

by aclimatt 10y ago

newsat13 10y ago
And nothing for the support offered by the flynn team? I am also curious to find out what is the running cost for maintaining flynn. Is there one dedicated engineer minitoring the infra?
- Titanous 10y ago
  Our experience at Flynn is that there are a few common scenarios: - Small and side projects run well without supervision. - Existing ops teams can manage Flynn without much additional effort. - Medium sized teams that don't want an internal ops team pay us for Managed Flynn where we take over all ops-related responsibilities.
  - tracker1 10y ago
    For a small-mid sized company with an overworked dev manager, hiring out flynn for the cost of a Jr Systems Administrator sounds pretty reasonable.
- aclimatt 10y ago
  Yep, the Flynn team helped us out via IRC and were fantastic. Especially as we were still working on getting pre-1.0 running, it was great to work with an engineer directly through the bumps. Obviously they do offer paid support as well, which is great for recurring issues and operational assistance. We do have a dedicated engineer managing / monitoring our infrastructure. It's not a set-it-and-forget-it kind of thing, so if you don't have somebody to manage your infrastructure, the hosted version might be a better choice. The big cost savings win was for all of our /other/ engineers who now don't need to know anything about ops to get their apps running. Previously with Chef, everybody was responsible for writing recipes and setting up environments, but now we have a standard set of buildpacks that work with our apps, and when we need to transfer an app to a client (as we're a dev agency), we can set it up on Heroku and it should "just work".