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DigitalOcean App Platform
- hyuuu 6y agohow is this compared to google's app engine?
- thethethethe 6y agoThis seems like more similar to AppEngine Flexible than AppEngine Standard. From what I gather, it looks like they deploy your code onto managed VMs instead of running your code on fully managed multi-tenant servers. Disc: I work for Google opinions are my own
- jagtesh 6y agoThis is more similar to Cloud Run combined with Cloud Build, when using the Dockerfile.
- thethethethe 6y agoOh interesting, didn’t see the docker part, thought it was just language runtimes. The data plane and pricing model is quite different from Cloud Run though. Cloud Run is multi-tenant like AppEngine Standard, will scale to zero, and instead of fixed monthly pricing, you pay for the amount of compute you use per-second
- MuffinFlavored 6y agoPricing from the article: CPU Type|CPUs|RAM|Price/mo Shared|1|1 GB|$12 1. Buy a $5/mo droplet 2. sudo apt-get install docker 3. run your Dockerfile is that worth a $7/mo (140%) premium? I would use it if it was the same cost as the underlying droplet.
- nreece 6y agoThe real benefit seems to be its in-built CI/CD, and horizontal scaling, much like GCP Cloud Run: "App Platform allows you to hook up your source code repo and deploy using a cloud-hosted build system that automatically detects the needed environment to run your app."
- devxpy 6y agoCaprover is what you're looking for.
- bitz-please 6y agoI wonder how to get a beta invite?
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoSomewhat relevant: apparently DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes had serious security flaws in its early days after release. [0] Can anyone comment on this and whether it should colour our impressions here? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22490390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22490390
- aliswe 6y agoDepending on how they handled that, maybe those incidents should speak for DO, not against them.
- bartmika 6y agoExciting! I’ve been looking for this sort of service from DO for a while.
- bredren 6y agoIf they add Django support and do it well, this could siphon a lot of early development work away from Heroku.
- bigums 6y agoSo this is this solution they’re offering after purchasing Nanobox? I wish it had more feature parity because this is a bit of let down after a year of waiting for what they with do with the Nanobox tech.