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Comment · 10 years ago

take a look at my post from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13031870 . I'd be interested to hear your (and others') thoughts.

Comment · 10 years ago

Since you're doing research in this area, have you taken a look at something like https://www.dyadicsec.com/ at all? I looked at the whitepaper a while ago, and it seemed to make sense, though I was way out of my depth.

Comment · 10 years ago

Check out concourse.ci [example pipeline at https://ci.concourse.ci/]. It fully supports building docker images - https://github.com/concourse/docker-image-resource

Comment · 10 years ago

I'd love to hear more about your solution. Are you saying that you've created an algorithm distinct from paxos/raft/zab that's more robust?

Comment · 10 years ago

Being able to rebuild critical infrastructure from source, and know that you'll be able to reliably deploy it, is a _huge_ win for security.

In that case, you might be interested in bosh: http://bosh.io/docs/problems.html (the tool that enables the workflow jacques_chester was describing). It embraces the idea of reliably building from source for the exact reasons you've mentioned.

Comment · 10 years ago

You should take a look at https://bosh.io/ . It does what you want wrt devs being responsible for defining how the software runs, environment reproducibility, etc. Unfortunately, the learning curve is pretty steep.

Comment · 10 years ago

As Titanous said, BOSH operates at a lower level than Flynn. You could use BOSH to deploy Flynn, hypothetically. A more direct comparison would be Cloud Foundry.

Comment · 10 years ago

There's a foundation that's a separate entity that owns the IP: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/membership/members/

Comment · 10 years ago

> I'm pretty sure it's quite valuable, though I'm also unclear what people would be willing to pay.

Your solution probably works great for your needs, but this stuff is expensive to productize. See https://www.openshift.org/

Comment · 10 years ago

> One PaaS with developers in mind is https://nodechef.com It would be interesting to see how they do.

Is this your product? All of your comments are about it.

Comment · 11 years ago

The most production ready versions of this kind of thing are http://geode.incubator.apache.org and https://ignite.apache.org .

Comment · 11 years ago

Terraform's model (local state files) is not something that works well, in my opinion. Since AWS doesn't know that you want some operations done "transactionally" (like with CloudFormation), you can easily end up with a half built env that needs to be cleaned up. PaaSTa is more of a CF competitor, as far as I know, not really at the same abstraction level. I think that it would be a lot easier to clean up the UX/marketing of BOSH than doing the opposite.

Comment · 11 years ago

Oh, so kind of like: http://concourse.ci/?

Comment · 11 years ago

You mention Puppet and Chef, but how does it compare to more holistic tools like terraform, juju, and bosh?