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Very cool! Been looking for something like this since Docker was announced. Basically Cloud Foundry is far too complex for what I/we need but this would fit the
by druiid 13y ago
Very cool! Been looking for something like this since Docker was announced. Basically Cloud Foundry is far too complex for what I/we need but this would fit the bill nicely.
One question though, what is going to be 'the cluster' (The site says it distributes work across 'the cluster')? Basically, will it be capable of interfacing with cloud API's or will it just be you manually setting up a group of instances to host the machines to run Docker on top of?
- Titanous 13y agoThe 'cluster' is a group of nodes running the Docker + Flynn software. It can be anything from a single server to a fleet of EC2 instances to a rack of servers. It would be easy to make a tool that spawns instances running Flynn on your choice of public/private cloud.
- druiid 13y agoOkay, thanks for clarifying. The next question then would be, if you do reach your stretch goals and implement auto-scaling, would you at that point have cloud/MaaS API integration?
- Titanous 13y agoIt's possible, we want to make Flynn really easy to use.
- meskyanichi 13y agoSo integrating with VPS providers such as Linode and Digital Ocean will be possible? If so, would this be easy to do for end-users? Never got in to Cloud Foundry because it's overly complex and very limiting. Always went with Heroku, but wished I could have a Heroku-style infrastructure on the above mentioned VPS providers for the benefits of running better hardware, being more affordable, being multi-region, etc, etc.
- Titanous 13y agoYes, there's no reason this can't run on VPS providers. Some have APIs for provisioning, so hooking them up for automated deployment is not complex either.
- meskyanichi 13y agoNeat! These two in particular both have an API for provisioning.
- fps 13y agoDocker runs on linode and digital ocean (https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/469 https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/469, https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/424 https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/424) by loading a custom kernel. Assuming the requirements for Flynn aren't much more than Docker, the whole stack should run there as well. Easy for end-users is probably a matter of opinion, especially until Flynn releases some code.
- meskyanichi 13y agoVery cool. Thanks for the info!
- KenCochrane 13y agoHere are notes on getting Docker running on Digital Ocean: http://kencochrane.net/blog/2013/06/running-docker-on-digital-ocean/ http://kencochrane.net/blog/2013/06/running-docker-on-digita... Rackspace: http://kencochrane.net/blog/2013/05/running-docker-on-rackspace-cloud/ http://kencochrane.net/blog/2013/05/running-docker-on-racksp... Linode: http://stinemat.es http://stinemat.es (site seems to be down at the moment)
- druiid 13y agoWell I know deltacloud at least has Digital Ocean integration: http://deltacloud.apache.org/drivers.html#drivers http://deltacloud.apache.org/drivers.html#drivers Don't see Linode listed there, but between that or Jclouds (http://jclouds.incubator.apache.org/documentation/reference/supported-providers/ http://jclouds.incubator.apache.org/documentation/reference/...) you have like a billion cloud API's available to you. I imagine teaming one/both would make Flynn a very interesting alternative to Cloud Foundry/etc.