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People at Convox[1] and Remind101 are doing similar open-source work. Convox's business model is selling you the managed version of their open source rack. We'
by dmlittle 7y ago
People at Convox[1] and Remind101 are doing similar open-source work.
Convox's business model is selling you the managed version of their open source rack. We've been using Convox in production for over 3 years now and we've had pretty good success with it. It's not perfect but the UX improvement for developers when building docker images, promoting new builds or rolling back cannot be understated.
Remind101 has built Empire[2] which is not a product they actually sell but rather the tool they use internally and have decided to open-source it. Empire is a little less managed and while it allows you to run services on it it requires you to have your own solution for building and hosting docker images.
[1] https://convox.com/ https://convox.com/, https://github.com/convox/rack https://github.com/convox/rack
[2] https://github.com/remind101/empire https://github.com/remind101/empire
- markwahl 7y agoI might be wrong, but isn't Convox only operational in the AWS cloud. If I want to run Convox on Azure, GCP or bluemix, will this be possible? The empire alternative pointed out also appears to be another option only operational in the AWS cloud.
- dmlittle 7y agoCorrect, both the Convox ECS rack and Empire are AWS exclusive. Convox has a public-beta of their rack running on Kubernetes which is cloud agnostic as it only needs a Kubernetes cluster to operate in.
- markwahl 7y agoDoes Convox provision and manage the underlying Kubernetes cluster or depends on the Cloud provider's managed Kubernetes offering?
- dmlittle 7y agoConvox does not manage the underlying Kubernetes cluster. If you're using EKS it's managed by AWS, GKE by GCP, AKS by Azure, etc. If you're using a self-hosted cluster, then it's up to you to manage it. The Convox platform runs as Kubernetes CRDS so it is cloud agnostic.