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It just felt wrong, thanks for letting me know. Seems weird to run an orchestration system in another one. Fly wasn't meant to be a VPS / server host and usin
by aosmith 4y ago
It just felt wrong, thanks for letting me know. Seems weird to run an orchestration system in another one. Fly wasn't meant to be a VPS / server host and using it as one seems odd to me.
- anuragsoni 4y agoI don't work for fly, but I'll say that while the end-user of fly.io isn't expected to run an orchestration system, fly.io themselves runs an orchestration system (nomad from what I can tell), so it seems like a fairly reasonable idea for a take home evaluation for an infrastructure role at the company to evaluate skills/knowledge about orchestration systems.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoThey posted maybe 6 months ago that they were migrating from Nomad to K8s (and expected it to take a while) so it's possible they're not on Nomad anymore.
- kasey_junk 4y agoI would be _shocked_ if they moved to K8s.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoI must have misremembered, they did say they're moving away from nomad in https://fly.io/blog/a-foolish-consistency/ https://fly.io/blog/a-foolish-consistency/ edit: And here they say they're replacing nomad with their own thing: https://fly.io/jobs/platform-engineering/ https://fly.io/jobs/platform-engineering/
- tptacek 4y agoThe new thing is `flyd`. I'm writing a blog post about it, right after I write a blog post about our inscrutable hiring process.
- tptacek 4y agoWe would sooner all eat a bug.
- tptacek 4y agoThe orchestration system you're talking about is Nomad. We run a huge Nomad cluster (we're in the process of moving away from it, but it's one of the harder parts of our infrastructure to wrangle).