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Unfortunately I also had to waste my time learning containers when all I wanted was Heroku without the insane prices for addon services. For delivering just app
by intellix 6y ago
Unfortunately I also had to waste my time learning containers when all I wanted was Heroku without the insane prices for addon services. For delivering just apps I think Cloud Native Buildpacks solve that: https://buildpacks.io/ https://buildpacks.io/
- monsieurbanana 6y agoWhat does "delivering just apps" means? And what's buildpacks? Seems like a more specialized docker.
- bjt 6y agoBuildpacks predate Docker. They're standardized build scripts for popular app runtimes. Heroku created the concept and applied it for their PaaS years before Docker was a thing. They're not a competitor to Docker containers. They are perhaps a competitor to Dockerfiles.
- intellix 6y agoThey detect the kind of app and then basically do everything required to build and run that app from pushing a repository. So it'll detect that it's a NodeJS application because there's a package.json file in the root and essentially: install node modules, run the build script and then do npm run start to run it. All you need to know how to do is: supply a build + start script and push your repository and now it's built and running in the Cloud to scale from 0 to unlimited. It's basically Heroku but buildpacks are a standardised way to do it on any Cloud.
- ksajadi 6y agoYou can also try Cloud 66
- lvturner 6y agoUsed them years ago when we moved from AWS to bare-metal (losing Elastic Beanstalk that we were using in AWS in the process) I seem to recall a few minor issues here and there, but I'd totally use them again.
- barhum 6y agoHave you tried Dokku? Very similar to Heroku. I run it on a DO server without any issues.
- cpursley 6y agoRender.com is like Heroku but cheaper and handles static sites as well as distributed applications (nodes can talk to each other).