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Is anyone currently using this setup (Rails w Docker) in production? I've been using Rails for years, I haven't yet experienced much pain by way of language/li

Is anyone currently using this setup (Rails w Docker) in production? I've been using Rails for years, I haven't yet experienced much pain by way of language/library versioning (etc). Python is a different story...

t3rabytes 7y ago
Yes, we do it at Basecamp for all of our legacy apps (and our newest one, HEY), and we've ran Basecamp 2 in production via Kubernetes (we no longer do it, but we did it for a lengthy period of time).
- jakearmitage 7y ago
  I'm curious to know more about why you left Kubernetes. Performance?
  - t3rabytes 7y ago
    Nothing Kubernetes-related, it was provider-related. We hurriedly moved Basecamp 2 back on-prem after a string of outages caused by our cloud provider at the time. There are a bunch of blog posts on Signal v Noise from early 2019 that talk about it.
- CoachRufus87 7y ago
  What are y'all using instead of k8s?
  - t3rabytes 7y ago
    Kubernetes for HEY, ECS for the other legacy apps that I mentioned are using Docker, bare metal for Basecamp 2 & 3 (but K8s is on the roadmap for both of them)
breckenedge 7y ago
GitLab has a pretty nice image for running their Community Edition in Docker. I've investigated it a few times for several Rails applications that I maintain, but I've never completed a rollout. Running Rails on Docker isn't a huge hurdle, but Capistrano's default git-based deploys are just so _easy and fast_ once the server is set up. I also have to balance deploying Docker with ops' expertise. I do recommend getting a copy of _Docker for Rails Developers_ to avoid needing to read a bunch of disparate blogs, though it covers Docker Swarm instead of Kubernetes. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Docker-Rails-Developers-Applications-Everywhere/dp/1680502735 https://www.amazon.com/Docker-Rails-Developers-Applications-...
gnarco 7y ago
We have a number of Dockerized Rails apps hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It isn't quite as smooth as Heroku but once setup it has been quite solid. The parity between develop and prod is decent, we use docker-compose and localstack to simulate backing services.
specialp 7y ago
We've had our Rails like apps (Sinatra, Padrino) Dockerized for 5 years now and running on container orchestration systems. First Mesos, now Kubernetes. And some running as Lambdas as well. We do not have a single production app not in a container and we are mostly Ruby.
bdcravens 7y ago
We have run on Docker and ECS for a couple of years.
xfalcox 7y ago
Discourse is a Rails app and all our deployments use Docker. Our image is open source, under our org in both GitHub and DockerHub.
Fire-Dragon-DoL 7y ago
I use docker as a build server. At the end of the project it spits out a debian package that I can install on a machine. It doesn't need bundler, only ruby and the gem command (up to a certain version). Quite a nice setup if you look for bare metal performance
dewey 7y ago
I run my side project in Docker on Kubernetes, works well and wasn’t too annoying to set up. Compared to getting my Go deployments to run it was kind of a pain though.

t3rabytes 7y ago

Yes, we do it at Basecamp for all of our legacy apps (and our newest one, HEY), and we've ran Basecamp 2 in production via Kubernetes (we no longer do it, but we did it for a lengthy period of time).

jakearmitage 7y ago
I'm curious to know more about why you left Kubernetes. Performance?
- t3rabytes 7y ago
  Nothing Kubernetes-related, it was provider-related. We hurriedly moved Basecamp 2 back on-prem after a string of outages caused by our cloud provider at the time. There are a bunch of blog posts on Signal v Noise from early 2019 that talk about it.
CoachRufus87 7y ago
What are y'all using instead of k8s?
- t3rabytes 7y ago
  Kubernetes for HEY, ECS for the other legacy apps that I mentioned are using Docker, bare metal for Basecamp 2 & 3 (but K8s is on the roadmap for both of them)

breckenedge 7y ago

GitLab has a pretty nice image for running their Community Edition in Docker. I've investigated it a few times for several Rails applications that I maintain, but I've never completed a rollout. Running Rails on Docker isn't a huge hurdle, but Capistrano's default git-based deploys are just so _easy and fast_ once the server is set up. I also have to balance deploying Docker with ops' expertise. I do recommend getting a copy of _Docker for Rails Developers_ to avoid needing to read a bunch of disparate blogs, though it covers Docker Swarm instead of Kubernetes. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Docker-Rails-Developers-Applications-Everywhere/dp/1680502735 https://www.amazon.com/Docker-Rails-Developers-Applications-...

gnarco 7y ago

We have a number of Dockerized Rails apps hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It isn't quite as smooth as Heroku but once setup it has been quite solid. The parity between develop and prod is decent, we use docker-compose and localstack to simulate backing services.

specialp 7y ago

We've had our Rails like apps (Sinatra, Padrino) Dockerized for 5 years now and running on container orchestration systems. First Mesos, now Kubernetes. And some running as Lambdas as well. We do not have a single production app not in a container and we are mostly Ruby.

bdcravens 7y ago

We have run on Docker and ECS for a couple of years.

xfalcox 7y ago

Discourse is a Rails app and all our deployments use Docker. Our image is open source, under our org in both GitHub and DockerHub.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 7y ago

I use docker as a build server. At the end of the project it spits out a debian package that I can install on a machine. It doesn't need bundler, only ruby and the gem command (up to a certain version). Quite a nice setup if you look for bare metal performance

dewey 7y ago

I run my side project in Docker on Kubernetes, works well and wasn’t too annoying to set up. Compared to getting my Go deployments to run it was kind of a pain though.