Show HN: A open source Heroku-like PaaS that runs on your server

https://www.repobus.com/

by markwahl • 6 years ago

32 26 6 years ago

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revendell_elf• 6 years ago

How is it different than Dokku?

markwahl4• 6 years ago

Perhaps to answer the question, one might ask: How is Heroku different from Dokku?

ativzzz• 6 years ago

For one, Heroku has dedicated customer support when you pay them.

Gys• 6 years ago

That difference is very clear: you still need to buy and manage your own (cloud) server to run dokku on.

kevinyun• 6 years ago

Having used both extensively, the answer is as simple as one is private/hosted and the other is open/self-hosting.

Heroku is easy, but expensive. Dokku is more work/management, but cost-effective.

mappu• 6 years ago

Dokku is available now. This landing page says RepoBus will have "Deploy to multiple servers", "Aggregated logs + search", and "Aggregated metrics + alerts" (and maybe others) that I think Dokku doesn't have.

josegonzalez• 6 years ago

Dokku does have deployment to multiple servers, albeit plugins to deploy to a kubernetes[1] or nomad[2] cluster.

[1] https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes [2] https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-nomad

harrisreynolds2• 6 years ago

Looking forward to seeing this mature. I am using dokku to host Webase [1] on a dedicated server and also have used Heroku extensively. It feels like there is room in the market for a tool like this.

[1] https://www.webase.com

lflux• 6 years ago

How does this differ from CloudFoundry?

sneak3• 6 years ago

See also: CapRover. Beats dokku all to hell, in my experience.

https://github.com/caprover/caprover

Be careful, their (CapRover) embedded NetData image has the NetData upstream defaults for spyware, so you are advised not to enable it (use of their embedded NetData is optional).

https://github.com/caprover/caprover/issues/553

It is straightforward to set up CapRover with an ssh deploy key and a webhook for deploying automatically on any repo change (even from a self-hosted Gitea, which CapRover also makes easy).

probst• 6 years ago

The github issue you linked to and the discussion it contains is the reason I am sticking with dokku. The CapRover maintainer seems to argue in bad faith and not have the users best interest at heart.

harrisreynolds2• 6 years ago

Agree. It does not inspire confidence to recommend a product and quickly follow it up with worries about spyware.

And dokku works well for my use cases.

the_common_man• 6 years ago

Isn't Show HN for products that we can actually try out? Looks like this is just collecting emails at this point.

CGamesPlay• 6 years ago

What part of this is open source? I don't see any Github or other links to said source.

It looks like you're going to eventually build a company around this and maybe you will think about releasing the source then? In which case, the title is still misleading.

I do appreciate that you've released documentation ahead of the product, it does indicate that you understand how important that aspect of the business will be.

shellum• 6 years ago

It's great to see all the good competition in this area. The more use, discussion, and cross pollination among them the better. Here's another one (Akkeris) I've used, open sourced by an excellent former employer and devops team: https://beta.akkeris.io/

rcarmo• 6 years ago

Neat, although apparently not available yet.

In the meantime, if you want something that is simple enough that you can read the entire code base in one sitting, check out Piku:

https://github.com/piku

dmlittle3• 6 years ago

People at Convox[1] and Remind101 are doing similar open-source work.

Convox's business model is selling you the managed version of their open source rack. We've been using Convox in production for over 3 years now and we've had pretty good success with it. It's not perfect but the UX improvement for developers when building docker images, promoting new builds or rolling back cannot be understated.

Remind101 has built Empire[2] which is not a product they actually sell but rather the tool they use internally and have decided to open-source it. Empire is a little less managed and while it allows you to run services on it it requires you to have your own solution for building and hosting docker images.

[1] https://convox.com/, https://github.com/convox/rack

[2] https://github.com/remind101/empire

markwahl4• 6 years ago

I might be wrong, but isn't Convox only operational in the AWS cloud. If I want to run Convox on Azure, GCP or bluemix, will this be possible?

The empire alternative pointed out also appears to be another option only operational in the AWS cloud.

dmlittle3• 6 years ago

Correct, both the Convox ECS rack and Empire are AWS exclusive. Convox has a public-beta of their rack running on Kubernetes which is cloud agnostic as it only needs a Kubernetes cluster to operate in.

Show HN: A open source Heroku-like PaaS that runs on your server

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