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I'd love to hear about any trouble you ran into while trying Flynn so that we can fix it! Feel free to send me an email: jonathan@flynn.io Convox is a great pi

I'd love to hear about any trouble you ran into while trying Flynn so that we can fix it! Feel free to send me an email: jonathan@flynn.io Convox is a great pick if you want to use AWS-specific services for your entire stack. Instead of using portable open source components, Convox uses AWS services wherever possible, and acts as a lightweight coordinator to combine them into a platform. Flynn has no external dependencies on cloud features, so you can run it anywhere, whether that's on your laptop, AWS, Google Cloud, a VM somewhere, or bare metal in a colo or private datacenter. We also include RDS-like highly available database appliances so that your whole stack is portable and you are not locked into a single hosting provider. edited to add: We didn't know about this post until Bitmatica posted it, this is just a great post from a happy user, not planned Flynn marketing!

bglusman 10y ago
Yeah, definitely think you guys are both top notch projects, but the article focused on you guys as the end solution and mentioned so many other things en route, I felt people should see one of the other high profile contenders, though forgot to add it was AWS only (added below). It's been a few months now since I kind of timeboxed an hour or two to play with each of 3 I narrowed down to as most likely to offer the easiest transition off of Heroku without being single node like Dokku (you guys, Convox and Tsuru were the 3 I think I tried, and got furthest with and was most impressed with Convox and Flynn). It wasn't a totally fair comparison, as I think I ran Flynn and Tsuru locally via Vagrant, because I could for both I think, but had to actually use real AWS for Convox... but this was all just because I was hoping to make a case at work that we should try one of these actual PaaS-like solutions rather than go for a non-PaaS solution like Kubernetes, as I knew it would not be a trivial transition, as the articles' author discovered. If I ever have time to try it again I'll try and go a little further and provide feedback if I have any!
- Titanous 10y ago
  Awesome, thanks for the feedback!

bglusman 10y ago

Yeah, definitely think you guys are both top notch projects, but the article focused on you guys as the end solution and mentioned so many other things en route, I felt people should see one of the other high profile contenders, though forgot to add it was AWS only (added below). It's been a few months now since I kind of timeboxed an hour or two to play with each of 3 I narrowed down to as most likely to offer the easiest transition off of Heroku without being single node like Dokku (you guys, Convox and Tsuru were the 3 I think I tried, and got furthest with and was most impressed with Convox and Flynn). It wasn't a totally fair comparison, as I think I ran Flynn and Tsuru locally via Vagrant, because I could for both I think, but had to actually use real AWS for Convox... but this was all just because I was hoping to make a case at work that we should try one of these actual PaaS-like solutions rather than go for a non-PaaS solution like Kubernetes, as I knew it would not be a trivial transition, as the articles' author discovered. If I ever have time to try it again I'll try and go a little further and provide feedback if I have any!

Titanous 10y ago
Awesome, thanks for the feedback!