sungrokshim

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by sungrokshim 5y ago
Yes let's talk!
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
It's great to see enterprises like Alibaba build out these types of internal developer platform (IDP) around Helm. We've talked to the engineers who built out these IDP's at different companies because we wanted to build a ge
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
Yes it's possible to do that on Porter. When you deploy an application, you choose which branch you want to deploy from and we build/deploy the application on every push to the specified branch. Under the hood, we write a GitHub a
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
Teams with little to no k8s experience are the type of users we are primarily designing it for! The advanced features like "devops mode" is completely optional and only useful if you want to expose yourself to the complexity of k8
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
The advent of k8s really gave the PaaS providers the luxury to focus on the platform layer rather than creating the infra layer from scratch. The market is early and we're excited to see what innovation each of us is going to bring to
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
If you're running small projects, Dokku is a cheaper option compared to running a k8s cluster. Porter helps you leverage all the benefits of k8s like scalability, scalability, configurability, and is great for multi-cloud environments
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
Building open source comes with a bunch of technical benefits like my co-founder mentions, and I don't think the recent trend is a result of YC startups "running out of ideas". It's somewhat like food companies going org
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
We've encountered this from our early users and are definitely looking for ways to incorporate transparency of cost. AWS is particularly opaque when it comes to pricing, and I'd love to hear any ideas you have in things that would
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
This was our biggest hesitation when we were first evaluating the idea - we thought companies want to either "outsource" devops completely by using something like Heroku, or hire a devops engineer to do the devops work, obviating
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
We've talked to the folks at Azure recently, and Azure support is on its way along with a few other cloud providers!
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
Skaffold is a bit different from Porter and Qovery because it's mostly a tool for development on Kubernetes, and its primary goal isn't to make deployments as easy as Heroku on k8s. I describe this in more detail in the comment ab
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
Yes Dokku is an awesome option for smaller projects. The maintainers are great!
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
Thank you! That's a great idea, at the moment you need to go through cluster provisioning to get the feel of our product - we were looking for ways to make the product more accessible without having to provision an entire cluster in yo
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
When compared to non k8s-based PaaS solutions like Heroku, using a managed k8s offering like EKS can be expensive. For those who are running small scale projects, k8s is an overkill and the benefits of scalability and stability might not be
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by sungrokshim 5y ago
No worries, this is a valid point and does not come off as a dismissal. As you said, there are many PaaS's built on Kubernetes. And they lie in a spectrum of abstraction: on one end, there are OpenShift and Rancher that requires knowle
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Launch HN: Porter (YC S20) – Open-source Heroku in your own cloud
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by sungrokshim 6y ago
It's not necessary for you to dockerize your app to use Porter. Porter uses buildpacks to automatically build your apps if it can't detect a Dockerfile.
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by sungrokshim 6y ago
Hi, I'm one of the co-founders of Porter. First I wanted to clarify that the OP is not affiliated with Porter - but thank you OP for putting us on HN! This was a pleasant surprise. As for the business plan, the honest answer is that we
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by sungrokshim 6y ago
Hi everyone, I'm one of the maintainers of Porter ( https://github.com/porter-dev/porter ). We are building a Kubernetes-powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud. We consider Porter to be the next-gen successor to F
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by sungrokshim 6y ago
congrats on the launch! Sysbox seems to be a solution that combines the best of both worlds (vm and containers) - excited it will be open source too :)