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> Some day I would like a powwow with all you hackers about whether 99% of apps need more than [...] Close. But I also need it HA w/ automatic failover, auto-S
by kodablah 8y ago
> Some day I would like a powwow with all you hackers about whether 99% of apps need more than [...]
Close. But I also need it HA w/ automatic failover, auto-SSL certs (meaning I might need to give my DNS provider creds depending upon LE approach), notifications on outages, easy viewing of logs past and present, easy metric viewing, automatic backups, and updates that are easy for me to sign off on to then run. I'll do the plugging on the app side (that is exporting metrics, logs, etc). And no vendor-specific solutions (even if they are repackaged common components like RDS is for Postgres), I should be able to run on a couple VMs on my laptop if I want and it be the exact same. And I may want to add an MQ/stream (e.g. Kafka), in-mem DB (e.g. Redis), etc later and still want log aggregation, metrics, backups, etc.
Really, that's not asking too much but it's definitely more than LAMP. We need a pithy name for this startup-in-a-box (again, that's NOT a PaaS, but a self-hosted management on an existing set of servers). Nobody wants to fumble w/ Ansible/Puppet/Salt/Chef/whatever all over the place or hire an ops guy, and people don't want to use vendor-specific solutions.
I agree with the "you only need this"...but we need just a bit more to handle outages and auditing.