Are these sorts of services good enough? I want somewhere to deploy my Django apps, ideally I should be able to get a beefy server and deploy every app as a single thing on that server, completely compartmentalized.
The problem I keep hitting is that these things have a tradeoff between ease of use and power. I want to use Docker, but it has no easy way to say "take this file that contains instructions and make everything". You can write Dockerfiles, but you can only use one part of the stack in them, otherwise you run into trouble.
I'm hoping Flynn will allow me to use a database, Redis, uwsgi, nginx, etc with a simple deployment command. Does anyone know of anything else like this?
One thing I've been wondering about with Flynn is data persistence. I have an app already running that I'd like to move to Flynn for deployment; will it be easy to bring over a populated database and have it persist, shared, across instances of the app?
Currently there is a very alpha Postgres appliance[0] (including automatic cluster orchestration and a database provisioning API) included with Flynn and we'll be standardizing the appliance model and adding more in the future. Flynn datastore appliances run inside of containers and are managed by Flynn just like everything else and will include support for backups, HA/replication, etc. out of the box with close to zero configuration.
The problem I keep hitting is that these things have a tradeoff between ease of use and power. I want to use Docker, but it has no easy way to say "take this file that contains instructions and make everything". You can write Dockerfiles, but you can only use one part of the stack in them, otherwise you run into trouble.
I'm hoping Flynn will allow me to use a database, Redis, uwsgi, nginx, etc with a simple deployment command. Does anyone know of anything else like this?