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Hey Nikolay, thanks for sharing your experience with Scalr. When did you last evaluate the provider? afaik it covers everything, but perhaps we missed something?
Congrats on the milestone! Keep up the great work keeping stuff open source.
What we expect them to do? How about making better commercial products to start?
- Scalr - Terramate - Terrateam
IMHO Hashi TF is the fork since they changed the license to a non-open source one.
OpenTF is the same MPL license under a different name.
Really hoping for a constructive response that we can all build off of.
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Scalr cofounder here.
Hope so too, we're a fractured community splits resources and forces every organization to have a discussion on what to use. That affects all of us.
Scalr Founder/CEO here.
There are a few realistic paths forward from here, to be confirmed when Hashi releases the full license they intend to use.
1. The Terraform community is large and talented, and we care intensely about open source. There will be a fork that remains open, and I'm hoping we can get all the commercial vendors and interested parties to be joint custodians of it. Like joeduffy says, their arguments are disingenuous, and their taking down of previous videos on their open source philosophy is too.
2. There is likely a Bring-Your-Own Terraform path, letting users supply their own Terraform for executing their code, and a commercial ecosystem that dispatches code and processes response with their own secret sauce. Just like you'd do with GitHub Actions.
3. Meanwhile, Terraform up to 1.5.5 is still open source, it's still amazing, and can still be used with the dozens of commercial tools out there.
Thanks for the advice, Jeff.
I didn't have too much trouble getting to the second or third dates, and you are correct in that the goal of the least bad profile pic was to get myself in a position to have my humor work for me ("personality shine through").
Perhaps the most controversial part of the process was treating dating like a hiring process, kind of like picking a co-founder.
Are those the only three contenders in the space?
I think it was Randy Bias that introduced the idea of pets vs cattle. See his presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/randybias/architectures-for-open-a...
Wikipedia opens up to describe an operating system as "a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs".
Since the majority of the programs we build today run on servers, not desktops, we needed new APIs to compute / storage / network. A new class of OS provides these, which we call IaaS or Cloud Computing. Some of these new OSes also provide the aforementioned 'common services' such as datastores or event loops.
I think the excitement lies around having an open source OS for programming your infrastructure to, instead of a (nevertheless excellent) proprietary one.
DNS management very often sucks, whether with GoDaddy or any other I've tried.
I founded a cloud management company for EC2 (and later other infrastructure clouds), and one of the first things we included was decent dns record management. It's integrated into your apache vhosts and whatnot, but the value is really just keeping your sanity when all you need to do is add an MX record.
Glad it made you smile!
If anyone's interested, wiki.scalr.net/Getting_Started is a good place to start. Or PM me!
Scalr scales your sql database, with master-slave separation, replication between nodes, and soon application transparent partitioning (sharding). So if you're not into the whole DBA / sysadmin fun, it's worth it.
It also lets you restore a website version to a previous state if you get hacked, use traditional (cheaper) hosting solutions which burst on the cloud when needed, and manage app versions, backups, etc. in a more organized way then homegrown solutions.
Sorry that Scalr didn't work out for you. From the date your comment was posted (beginning 2009) Scalr was still a young open source project.
We now have a development version available at development.scalr.net, if you would like to try it out again.
Funny, I hadn't thought of that.
:-)