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I'd be interested to know if this is integrated and rebranded nanobox [0]? Or something completely from scratch? [0]: https://nanobox.io/ https://nanobox.io/

phildougherty 6y ago
We certainly took a lot of inspiration and leaned on the awesome experience of the nanobox team, but this is largely a completely different architecture.
- sciurus 6y ago
  Can you tell us anything about the architecture?
  - phildougherty 6y ago
    We will be revealing a lot more about the architecture at our upcoming virtual conference called Deploy that is happening Nov 10-11th. There are a few sessions that touch on how the platform was implemented and I encourage you to tune in for those! (schedule to be announced soon). https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/ https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/
  - alexellisuk 6y ago
    This is what I found out by printing the environment variables: https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1306343018488791040 https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1306343018488791040
- Existenceblinks 6y ago
  Wasn't the Appsail nanobox? IIRC, it was planed to be DO's PaaS, so it's cancelled and then DO's PaaS is based on k8s instead?
  - dubcanada 6y ago
    Appsail was nanobox from what I saw, they redid it between appsail and "apps".
    - Existenceblinks 6y ago
      If Appsail was cancelled, what's the point of nanobox acquiring .. I wonder?
      - dubcanada 6y ago
        Maybe an acquihire? I don't recall seeing any of the nanobox people even mentioned or reply in any of the slack messages. So I am not really sure.
101008 6y ago
I am out of the loop, but at a quick loo it seems nanobox provided a way to deploy apps on top of Digital Ocean. Since you said "integrated and rebranded", does that mean DO bought nanobox? Or they just "copied" it*?
- anuragsoni 6y ago
  Nanobox was acquired by Digitalocean. More details at https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-acquires-nanobox/ https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-acquires-nano...
dubcanada 6y ago
It's completely from scratch, and based on playing around with it, it's a weird kubernates system. Which is why the pricing seems super weird compared to existing DO products (100GB's base and then you pay per a GB). Nanobox was a tool that allows you to build and manage a container with setups for heroku build packs. It handled deployment, load balancing, etc. Similar to heroku for example. But it also worked with Vultr, Amazon, etc.
JamiePrentice 6y ago
I was hoping to see more about what happened to Nanobox after Digital Ocean aquired them. I thought what they had was really well done and was excited to see where they took it.
- bizzleDawg 6y ago
  Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on their site which seems to indicate they were going to release something. I guess that's not happening any more!
aitchnyu 6y ago
I was guessing KNative, which powers Google Cloud Run. https://knative.dev/ https://knative.dev/
- alexellisuk 6y ago
  Google's Cloud Run the SaaS doesn't use KNative + K8s under the hood. It just uses a compatible HTTP API.
  - coryrc 6y ago
    That's correct, though "Cloud Run for Anthos" is KNative + k8s + secret sauce though (I work on it). Google has reached Microsoft-level naming complexity... - https://cloud.google.com/anthos/run/ https://cloud.google.com/anthos/run/
tpetry 6y ago
It‘s so sad nanobox was acquired and now trashed by digital ocean. It was comparable to a dokku/flynn on steroids, it was a very promising stack for self-hosted herokus.

phildougherty 6y ago

We certainly took a lot of inspiration and leaned on the awesome experience of the nanobox team, but this is largely a completely different architecture.

sciurus 6y ago
Can you tell us anything about the architecture?
- phildougherty 6y ago
  We will be revealing a lot more about the architecture at our upcoming virtual conference called Deploy that is happening Nov 10-11th. There are a few sessions that touch on how the platform was implemented and I encourage you to tune in for those! (schedule to be announced soon). https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/ https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/
- alexellisuk 6y ago
  This is what I found out by printing the environment variables: https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1306343018488791040 https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1306343018488791040
Existenceblinks 6y ago
Wasn't the Appsail nanobox? IIRC, it was planed to be DO's PaaS, so it's cancelled and then DO's PaaS is based on k8s instead?
- dubcanada 6y ago
  Appsail was nanobox from what I saw, they redid it between appsail and "apps".
  - Existenceblinks 6y ago
    If Appsail was cancelled, what's the point of nanobox acquiring .. I wonder?
    - dubcanada 6y ago
      Maybe an acquihire? I don't recall seeing any of the nanobox people even mentioned or reply in any of the slack messages. So I am not really sure.

101008 6y ago

I am out of the loop, but at a quick loo it seems nanobox provided a way to deploy apps on top of Digital Ocean. Since you said "integrated and rebranded", does that mean DO bought nanobox? Or they just "copied" it*?

anuragsoni 6y ago
Nanobox was acquired by Digitalocean. More details at https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-acquires-nanobox/ https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-acquires-nano...

dubcanada 6y ago

It's completely from scratch, and based on playing around with it, it's a weird kubernates system. Which is why the pricing seems super weird compared to existing DO products (100GB's base and then you pay per a GB). Nanobox was a tool that allows you to build and manage a container with setups for heroku build packs. It handled deployment, load balancing, etc. Similar to heroku for example. But it also worked with Vultr, Amazon, etc.

JamiePrentice 6y ago

I was hoping to see more about what happened to Nanobox after Digital Ocean aquired them. I thought what they had was really well done and was excited to see where they took it.

bizzleDawg 6y ago
Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on their site which seems to indicate they were going to release something. I guess that's not happening any more!

aitchnyu 6y ago

I was guessing KNative, which powers Google Cloud Run. https://knative.dev/ https://knative.dev/

alexellisuk 6y ago
Google's Cloud Run the SaaS doesn't use KNative + K8s under the hood. It just uses a compatible HTTP API.
- coryrc 6y ago
  That's correct, though "Cloud Run for Anthos" is KNative + k8s + secret sauce though (I work on it). Google has reached Microsoft-level naming complexity... - https://cloud.google.com/anthos/run/ https://cloud.google.com/anthos/run/

tpetry 6y ago

It‘s so sad nanobox was acquired and now trashed by digital ocean. It was comparable to a dokku/flynn on steroids, it was a very promising stack for self-hosted herokus.