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Convox founder here. Thanks for the shout out! We are indeed building a private Heroku like platform so you don't have to. It's a simple of layer around AWS so
by nzoschke 10y ago
Convox founder here. Thanks for the shout out! We are indeed building a private Heroku like platform so you don't have to.
It's a simple of layer around AWS so it doesn't add extra craziness some other approaches do.
As for the OP, her approach is spot on!
Containerizing your app is the first step in future proofing it. Doing so correctly will remove layers and therefore simplify things.
You now are looking at a package that can run on a laptop and run on a server with traditional techniques (upstart, systemd, etc).
You may take this to the next step and enter the orchestration world. Or not! Patience is a virtue, wait 6 more months and all the orchestration tools will be that much better.
It's all about simplifying. Adopt Dockerfile and shed Homebrew and Chef. Run containers on a "dumb" box with systemd and shed Packer.
Run containers on ECS and shed custom AMIs and userdata and nagios and...
- Naomarik 10y agoI think you dozed off there...
- vacri 10y agoI hate nagios as much as the next op, but what is so magical about containers that your services will no longer require an outage alerting mechanism?
- seabrookmx 10y ago> run containers on ECS Presumably ECS has its own alerting mechanisms similar to CloudFormation and ElasticBeanstalk (I've only used the latter two, not the former).
- vacri 10y agoIn my experience, AWS alerting only sends one alert once per issue. If you're asleep when the single SMS comes through, tough. Nagios will nag you until you do something about it... Maybe ECS is different. I haven't played with it, but I imagine it's "make an SNS topic" like everything else.
- pdx6 10y agoSend the AWS alarms to opsgenie or pager duty and they will nag you based on a single event, including escalations.
- vacri 10y agoNagios or a SaaS, we're still back to something else other than containers to manage the alerts, though.
- nzoschke 10y agoYou can integrate CloudWatch Alarms to PagerDuty with an SNS webhook. PagerDuty keeps nagging until the CloudWatch Alarm auto-resolves.
- nzoschke 10y agoIt's not containers, it's AWS. You get CloudWatch events that can turn into alerts for many parts of the platform. With the ECS and ELB/ALB integration, we get paged about downtime and 500s without Nagios.