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Shameless plug: In search of folks who'd like early access to my open-source Heroku-esque PaaS: ShipBuilder ShipBuilder is a freely available open-source proj

Shameless plug: In search of folks who'd like early access to my open-source Heroku-esque PaaS: ShipBuilder ShipBuilder is a freely available open-source project which aims to make it fast and easy to deploy arbitrary web-applications. Get total control over all aspects of your staging and production environments. More info: http://shipbuilder.io/ http://shipbuilder.io/ It uses Go, Git, LXC, and HAProxy. Just reply below with your github username, or shoot an email to jay@jaytaylor.com if you are interested in early access.

argonaut 13y ago
Have you considered merging efforts with Flynn?
- jaytaylor 13y ago
  I'm certainly open to the possibility, I want to end up with the best possible open-source PaaS system.
  - argonaut 13y ago
    Me too (not affiliated with Flynn). One of the reasons Rails gained so much mind share (IMO) over the Python ecosystem was fragmentation in Python's ecosystem.
    - shykes 13y ago
      In this case, the way to avoid fragmentation is not to merge but to standardize on the Docker APIs, just like Flynn does. Docker's job is to guarantee interop between PaaS-like components, so that you don't need to lock yourself into a single monolithic PaaS. Everything you build on Docker will benefit Flynn - and Deis, and Dokku, and Maestro, and dockermix, and custom platforms at Ebay, Uber, Cloudflare, Mailgun etc.
alexwright 13y ago
Are you doing anything clever to add and remove upstream hosts from the HAProxy instance? When I looked into it (very briefly) there was no kind of programmatic access to do that, among other things.
- jeffasinger 13y ago
  HAProxy does have the ability to gracefully reload a config file, which is what I use in a similar situation. I think (but might be wrong) that the old process stops listening for new connections, and shuts down when all of its current connections die.

argonaut 13y ago

Have you considered merging efforts with Flynn?

jaytaylor 13y ago
I'm certainly open to the possibility, I want to end up with the best possible open-source PaaS system.
- argonaut 13y ago
  Me too (not affiliated with Flynn). One of the reasons Rails gained so much mind share (IMO) over the Python ecosystem was fragmentation in Python's ecosystem.
  - shykes 13y ago
    In this case, the way to avoid fragmentation is not to merge but to standardize on the Docker APIs, just like Flynn does. Docker's job is to guarantee interop between PaaS-like components, so that you don't need to lock yourself into a single monolithic PaaS. Everything you build on Docker will benefit Flynn - and Deis, and Dokku, and Maestro, and dockermix, and custom platforms at Ebay, Uber, Cloudflare, Mailgun etc.

alexwright 13y ago

Are you doing anything clever to add and remove upstream hosts from the HAProxy instance? When I looked into it (very briefly) there was no kind of programmatic access to do that, among other things.

jeffasinger 13y ago
HAProxy does have the ability to gracefully reload a config file, which is what I use in a similar situation. I think (but might be wrong) that the old process stops listening for new connections, and shuts down when all of its current connections die.