I think the author should take a look at Convox [1]. Convox is really the "holy grail" PaaS that I've spent many years looking for. It's a self-hosted Heroku on

I think the author should take a look at Convox [1]. Convox is really the "holy grail" PaaS that I've spent many years looking for. It's a self-hosted Heroku on your own AWS account, and it uses Docker. You can set up a production-ready deployment in about 10-15 minutes, including RDS, SSL, logging, high availability, and auto-scaling. The cost starts at $67 per month: 3x t2.small instances for your highly-available cluster, and 1x db.t2.small RDS instance. (convox/rack [2] is a free and open-source project.) I've worked with OpsWorks (Chef), Saltstack, Puppet, Ansible, and Capistrano, and Convox is a breath of fresh air. I hate Chef with a passion, since I've had to maintain a cookbook for a client that is using OpsWorks. It's ugly, painful, and extremely slow. Docker is a great tool, but it's not a PaaS. You need a layer on top to make it useful for production. But I do love having a CI image that is identical to production. [1] https://convox.com https://convox.com [2] https://github.com/convox/rack https://github.com/convox/rack