Ask HN: Will you use (pay) a Dockerized hosting service?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10668296

by scprodigy • 11 years ago

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Imagine a "Dockerized DigitalOcean", where you launch instances with Docker images, not VM images. The differences are:

- super fast to deploy, less than a second

- native docker workflow (build/push/pull, etc.)

- immutable instance

- minimal instance size, e.g. 32MB RAM

- cheaper, $1/mon for 128MB instance

Would this kind of service be interesting? for personal VPS? Dev/Test bed? Or Web hosting?

vincent_s2• 11 years ago

Yes, I definitely would pay for that. There already are some docker hosting companies. However, they seem kind of complicated to use (at least more complicated than it has to be):

https://www.dotcloud.com/ (was originally built by Docker creators, then sold)

https://www.tutum.co/ (bought by Docker a few months ago)

https://quay.io/

http://sloppy.io/

vincent_s2• 11 years ago

P.S.: I think tutum comes closest to what you describe. They act as a middle man and support Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services, Packet and SoftLayer as hosting providers. However, I'm not sure if it's a good thing that they have been bought by Docker at this early stage ..

scprodigy4• 11 years ago

Not really, what I'm saying is more like DO, atop of secured container.

Also, it is more of a VPS or IaaS, not have to be CaaS or Microservices.

kevinsimper• 11 years ago

I am working on something like that, but it is very difficult to make something that is production ready. You can see it here https://blackbeard.io

The whole idea is that we managed the infrastucure and you can launch any docker container that you want.

But we have since changed our idea to be more of a prototype hosting platform where you can easily host and get started really quickly.

I would really like to dicuss the idea with you, you can catch me on social media with username @kevinsimper also on Skype.

scprodigy4• 11 years ago

Right, guess what I'm proposing is more of VPS and Iaas, not containers nested in VM.

michael_fine• 11 years ago

What would be the benefit of this over using something like dokku (https://github.com/progrium/dokku) with Digital Ocean?

scprodigy4• 11 years ago

The difference is not nesting your container in VM. Instead, the container is secure, isolated as VM. Then container becomes the foundation for hosting platform, e.g. EC2, not just app deployment atop IaaS.

hanniabu• 11 years ago

Not too familiar with what you speak of, but I found this the other day and may or may not be similar to what you're describing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitrous/efdcneeepl...

Ask HN: Will you use (pay) a Dockerized hosting service?

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